Flights were canceled in and out of the northern German cities of Bremen and Hamburg, and the capital, Berlin, as workers went on strike on Monday.more
Thanks to the lowest exchange rate of the Czech koruna against the zloty, purchases in Poland are the cheapest for Czechs since 1995. This applies not only to individual purchases, which are further encouraged by Poland's zero VAT on some food products, but also to institutional importers.more
Courts have reduced the sentences of hundreds of criminals to relieve overcrowded prisons, daily De Standaard reports. According to the newspaper, more than 294 convicts have been released for this reason in the last six months.more
President Joe Biden said Sunday that at his direction US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and his top economic adviser Lael Brainard worked with financial regulators to ensure households and businesses affected by the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures could access their deposits, and he promised to hold those responsible accountable.more
Everything Everywhere All at Once has dominated this year’s Oscars, winning seven awards including best picture in a major night for Asian and Asian American representation.more
In the UK, supermarkets have introduced a limit of three tomatoes per customer. You can buy a maximum of two peppers in the Netherlands. In Germany, customers complain about the prices of cucumbers, while in Spain, farmers patrol the fields at night against fruit and vegetable thieves. There is a lot of talk about the "onion crisis" in Slovakia.more
Italy will need 40,000 fruit pickers before summer to make up for the severe labor shortage that hit farms last year and led to a large loss of harvest.more
While cleaning, Simone Grundmann from the city of Soest in western Germany came across a cardboard box with four bones that her father had once dug up. The bones turned out to be mammoths that are at least 15,000 years old.more
Massive strikes in Paris against pension reform this week are affecting trash pickup services in the French capital, with piles of waste sitting on many of the city’s normally picturesque streets, including those just steps from monuments like the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe.more
The pandemic has made German schoolchildren less intelligent. In the test conducted at that time, young Germans fared much worse than the reference groups from 2002 and 2012. The conclusions of the research of German scientists were published in the specialist journal "Plos One".more
The largest Spanish real estate portal Idealista pointed to the increased interest of foreigners in renting or buying a house in Spain, including Polish citizens.more
The Netherlands eliminated its last remaining restrictions and official advice regarding the coronavirus on Friday, exactly 1,107 days after the first person tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the country. more
Germany is losing popularity in the global competition for skilled workers. According to a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation, since 2019 Germany has fallen from 12th to 15th place among the 38 OECD countries ranked in terms of attractiveness for skilled migrants.more
Researchers in the US have developed a platform that allows wireless ingestible devices to be tracked in 3D as they travels through the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, which may provide a cheaper, less invasive way of investigating, diagnosing and treating disorders that affect gastric motility.more
The majority of German citizens are in favor of limiting the right to strike in the area of critical infrastructure such as railways, air traffic or energy and water supply, according to a survey conducted by the Insa institute on behalf of the economic wing of the opposition CDU party.more
At least 14 people have died off the coast of Tunisia and 54 have been rescued after a boat on which migrants were trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy sank, the Tunisian coast guard said.more
Shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, with several people killed and wounded, police said.more
A pensioner from Bologna kept about 100,000 valuable items, mostly stolen. Among them were diamonds, watches, weapons and even a mammoth tooth. The value of the collection confiscated by the police was estimated at 6 million euros.more
1,175 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa over the past 24 hours, the Ansa agency reported after local authorities. A total of 30 boats from Africa arrived there at that time.more
Polish journalist Bianka Zalewska has won the Women of Courage Award for her work in Ukraine. She and ten other recipients had beed presented with the honour at the White House on International Women’s Day by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and First Lady Jill Biden.
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In Spain, there is a "mysterious" phenomenon: at least 10 food items, including fruit and vegetables, which were cheaper from farmers in the countryside, have become much more expensive in supermarkets, Cadena Ser radio reported.more
Drunken men, provocations and cases of sexual harassment deter many women from mass events such as fairs and festivals. The youth wing of the SPD party (Jusos) in Bremen made a proposal to introduce "male days off" at local fairs.more
