Despite recent reports and studies showing the diminishing effect of booster vaccinations, German government officials are still preparing a series of proposals for mandatory vaccinations. The vote is scheduled for early April.
The EU defends the sanctions as a means toward protecting the rule of law, judicial independence, and transparency; Warsaw and Budapest, however, read the ruling as a political tool used to punish governments that the EU disapproves of.
The German Agora Institute proposed the introduction of a new car toll to compensate for the loss of tax revenue that will follow the transition from gas to electric vehicles. It is the latest proposal of an institute with strong ties to Germany’s Green lobby.
A series of failures in the prevention of the flood catastrophe of July 2021 cost more than 100 lives in Germany alone. Newly-revealed chats that some high-ranking politicians were more concerned about not being blamed for those failures than about saving lives.
Austria’s government is once more changing personnel: after its third chancellor in two years, it will now also see its third minister of health, following the departure of Wolfgang Mückstein.
A letter by the director of the German health insurer BKK ProVita caused a ruckus among medical associations for claiming that negative side effects of COVID vaccinations were severely under-reported. Now, the director has been fired.
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The European wave of sanctions has reached the arts sector. Prominent Russian artists, such as Valery Gergiev and Anna Netrebko, are having their contracts terminated for “insufficient distancing” from Kremlin politics.
The latest IPCC report has once again painted a grim picture of man-made climate change, but skeptics call out its reliance on “implausibly fast models of warming” and flag it as “long on speculation, but short on facts.”
Just last week Switzerland insisted on its role as a neutral country regarding sanctions against Russia. But following international and national pressure, the government stepped in line with the EU on Monday.
Even before the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, German energy prices have gone through the roof due to the uncompromising switch to renewable energies. Combined with the looming threat of inflation, prices for energy imports have increased at a rate unseen since the 1970s.
A German insurance company found that side effects caused by a COVID shot are a lot more common than officially reported. Due to reporting being a time-intensive and unpaid task, many doctors haven’t bothered to record side effects.
