Interview: A Council Presidency with both digital and physical formats - how does that work? - Hoofdinhoud
Making politics visible - that’s the task of the planning task force. But how does that work during a Presidency that suddenly had to largely take place in digital form?
Holger Osterrieder, Coordinator of OS-EU2020 - the Planning and Protocol Task Force for the Organisation and Implementation of the German Presidency of the Council of the
EU at the Federal Foreign Office, talks in an interview about the challenges of suddenly having to organise a Presidency which is both digital and physical, while also being creative.
It is not yet known how many of these invoices have already been paid.
In an unprecedented effort, the German government flew 240,000 nationals back to Germany since March 17 after the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared a pandemic and countries around the world went into lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Travellers who had booked their flights through a tour operator were flown home to Germany free of charge. In addition, the Federal Foreign Office also chartered aircraft to bring 65,000 nationals and tourists home from high-risk areas, completing 260 flights from 65 countries by the end of April.
The last chartered plane took off from Cape Town in South Africa on April 24 carrying 157 passengers.
German accounting in support for White Helmets in Syria not transparent -Foreign Ministry
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also pointed out that the German Foreign Office seeks to present the White Helmets to the Syrians as a symbol of hope
MOSCOW, December 24. /TASS/. The material support, provided by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany to the pseudo-humanitarian White Helmets organization, could be used not only for solving humanitarian problems in Syria, but for funding terrorists as well, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.
Previously, the Foreign Office announced that it allocated 5 million euro aid for the organization.
A one-health approach to prevent COVID-21, COVID-22 and other future pandemics
DISCLAIMER: All opinions in this column reflect the views of the author(s), not of EURACTIV Media network. 17-11-2020
While a bat species has been identified as the most likely evolutionary host to the ongoing pandemic, it is fundamental to take stock and recognise that it is not about individual species or pathogens, and it would be short-sighted and naïve to think only of bat species, or known viruses, write Cristián Samper and Niels Annen. [Sony Herdiana / Shutterstock]
13-12-2020
#LubinaLove in a cube: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy wins the main prize at the FilmFestival Cottbus for the third time
Ivan I. Tverdovskiy wins the main prize for the best film in the Feature Film Competition of the 30th FilmFestival Cottbus. This is the third time the Russian director has been awarded the 25,000 EUR prize at the FFC, following CORRECTIONS CLASS (2014) and ZOOLOGY (2016). The Special Award for Best Director goes to Piotr Domalewski for I NEVER CRY. Acting debuts Marijana Novakov, Tijana Marković and Valentino Zenuni from Ivan Ikić s OASIS are honoured with the prize for an outstanding individual performance.