Vatican: Broker arrested for the purchase of a tenement house in London

The Vatican was detained on Friday and detained in the gendarmerie broker Gianluigi Torzi, who brokered the investigated operation of buying a tenement house in London for EUR 200 million. The Vatican press office informed about the arrest.more

With a strong industrial base and cheap labor, Central and Eastern Europe can greatly benefit from moving factories to the Old Continent, "Le Monde," says the journal, reminding the Warsaw-Paris conflict over labor costs.more

President Jair Bolsonaro threatened in a conversation with CNN Brasil that his country could follow in the footsteps of the United States and leave the World Health Organization, "if it does not cease to be a politically unilateral organization."more

Consisting of the representations of the governments of the Länder and acting as the second chamber of the German parliament, the Bundesrat (Federal Council) passed a criminal record of profaning the flag and the national anthem of the European Union.more

Europe could have its free travel zone up and running again by the end of the month, but travelers from further afield will not be allowed in before July, European Union Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said Friday after talks among the bloc’s interior ministers.more

Enigma encryption machine reaches by the German army during World War II was auctioned in Vienna for over 117,000 euro.more

Italy’s education minister said schools across the country would reopen in September, after being shut for six months due to the coronavirus outbreak.more

Brazil's total COVID-19 death toll blew past that of Italy on Thursday, as the Health Ministry reported 1,437 deaths in the last 24 hours and 30,925 additional coronavirus cases.more

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday firmly rejected suggestions that she might seek a fifth term at the helm after pledging in 2018 to step down when her current government leaves office.more

The Spanish government has clarified that Spain’s land borders will remain closed until July 1 after a minister said the country’s frontiers with Portugal and France would reopen on June 22.more

The outbreak of the coronavirus caused the expansion of 'telework'. Belgian researcher Christophe Degryse emphasizes the possible social consequences of the spread of remote work, noting that "it is a risk of a complete change in the social model of work".more

he building where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born in Austria will be turned into a police station, officials have announced. Interior Minister Wolfgang Peschorn said it would be an "unmistakable signal" that the property did not commemorate Nazism.more

At least, it follows from the analysis of experts who took a closer look at posts posted on Instagram with the hashtag #takemeback, which became extremely popular during quarantine. It was an expression of longing for places to which people locked in their homes would like to return.more

Spain will open up land borders with France and Portugal on June 22 and also aims to start welcoming tourists to some islands and other areas that have the coronavirus under control around the same time, a minister said on Thursday.more

Specialist in geopolitics, prof. Frederic Encel pointed out that the EU cannot be respected unless it jointly draws conclusions from a pandemic. "This is the last whistle for her" - emphasized Encel, acknowledging that so far Europe is "pinched between China and America". The professor pointed out that EU countries that are afraid to renounce their sovereignty may soon lose it completely.more

Due to a significant increase in the number of new coronavirus infections, Northern Macedonia introduced a ban on leaving homes in Skopje and nine other cities for the period from 21:00 on Thursday to 5:00 in the morning on Monday.more

In Copiague, Long Island, New York, there was a fire yesterday afternoon in the building of the auditorium belonging to the parish of Our Lady of the Assumption. Part of the building where the Polish Secondary Education School is located Zbigniew Herbert, it is probably impossible to save.more

The Covid-19 epidemic brought the French back to buying domestic food. According to some experts, this trend is not limited to food products, and according to others - it is not permanent, because native products are more expensive and not everyone can afford them.more

Two-thirds of Hungarians favor the introduction of the euro in the country as soon as possible, according to a survey published today.more

Two tourists, thought to be from Germany, have provoked outrage in Venice has they took a dip in the city’s iconic Grand Canal. more

Germany will lift a travel ban for European Union member states plus Britain, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland from 15 June as long as there are no entry bans or large-scale lockdowns in those countries, the foreign minister said.more

Approximately 5,5 percent of blood donors in the Netherlands have antibodies against coronavirus. With this percentage, herd immunity is a long way off, according to Hans Zaaijer, professor and medical microbiologist at the Sanquin blood donation organisation. Achieving herd immunity would take about two years without a vaccine.more

Germany’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.3% from 5.8% the previous month in seasonally adjusted terms, the figures from the Labour Office showed.more

Polish medical biologist Maciej Tarkowski from Milan was awarded by the Italian President Sergio Mattarella with the Knight's Cross for his services in fighting the epidemic of the coronavirus. The name of the Pole was on the list announced today by the Presidential Palace.more

Sweden’s top epidemiologist has admitted his strategy to fight Covid-19 resulted in too many deaths, after persuading his country to avoid a strict lockdown.more

Cafes and restaurants in France, closed for months due to the coronavirus pandemic, are opening again yesterday. Accepting customers is, however, allowed only on terraces and gardens, which resulted in their expansion in the public space of cities.more

Italy reopens to travellers from Europe on Wednesday (Jun 3), three months after the country went into COVID-19 lockdown, with all hopes pinned on reviving the key tourism industry as the summer season begins.more

Greece is preparing to admit tourists from all over the world this summer but will be adhering to the advice of health experts to ensure it remains a safe destination in terms of coronavirus exposure, the country’s tourism minister said Tuesday.more

The number of new coronavirus cases is steadily declining in Europe, with the exception of "Russia and Eastern Europe," said World Health Organization (WHO) spokeswoman Margaret Harris today.more

In the fourth quarter of 2019, 3.8 billion zlotys went to Poland due to the work abroad - we read in the NBP information on the balance of payments for the fourth quarter of 2019. It was added that the most money came from Germany and Great Britain.more

Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Loefven announced on Monday the establishment of a commission to examine the strategy to fight coronavirus before summer. The decision is related to the opposition's criticism of the government's actions.more

The Canadian government's plans for 2020 assumed the arrival of 370,000 immigrants. Immigrants support Canadian economic development and will be needed for reconstruction after Covid-19. The economy is already losing because of fewer new arrivals.more

The Mayor of Venice Luigi Brugnaro expressed joy at the arrival of two hundred German tourists in the city. In a conversation with television, RAI admitted that he did not know how they got to Italy, which was still closed to tourists.more

Tunisia will open its sea, land and air borders on June 27, the government said on Monday. According to Reuters, the authorities hope to save the tourism industry when the coronavirus pandemic is under control.more

During this year's vacation, there will be an average of 8.5 sq m of beach per vacationer - according to the guidelines published by the governmental Portuguese Environmental Agency (APA) regarding the maximum number of vacationers at the bathing area.more

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act — a centuries-old law that gives the president the authority to send the US military into US cities and towns to quash domestic unrest — if state governors don’t take sufficient action to quell the ongoing protests and unrest happening in cities across the country. more

After 84 days of forced break due to a coronavirus pandemic, the Roman Coliseum was opened yesterday. The tour takes place in extraordinary conditions: groups of 15 people are admitted every quarter, masks and temperature measurements are required at the entrance.more

George Floyd's death has sparked protests across the US, with demonstrators desperately calling for an end to police violence.more