On 26 April 1986, the so-called “liquidators” were sent from all over the Soviet Union to the Chernobyl nuclear station in Ukraine, to contain the disaster and liquidate the consequences of the accident. Between 1986 and 1988 600,000 people were...
In a somber tone, Boris Johnson warned the British people of the tragedy to come. Many more would lose their loved ones, he said. Many more would die. The date was March 12, 2020. It was a whole two months...
Sweden’s controversial pandemic-fighting strategy is beginning to yield results, according to its top epidemiologist. Anders Tegnell, the lead architect of Sweden’s “trust-based” pandemic-fighting strategy said that confirmed cases and deaths in the country are beginning to stabilize. ‘The Situation is...
EU leaders managed to agree upon a plan to inject billions of euros of emergency aid into Europe’s damaged economies during a virtual meeting on Thursday afternoon. The recovery fund will be closely tied to the bloc’s seven-year budget. They...
The situation of the forest fires which for over two weeks have been devastating the area of Ukraine surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is becoming increasingly worrying. The area which in 1986 was the scene of the shocking disaster...
The Financial Times said that under Christine Lagarde’s leadership, the European Central Bank (ECB) is the only EU institution that can ‘save the eurozone’ in the midst of the economic impact that the coronavirus is having on Europe’s economy. This...
This Orthodox Easter inds most of the Greeks celebrating at home, as a lockdown is still imposed across the country. The Greek Government acted promptly and taken all the necessary countermeasures shortly after the first COVID-19 case was reported in...
In the discussion about further financial aid for Europe’s economy to deal with the economic fallout of COVID-19, head of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Klaus Regling has stated that “at least another 500 billion” from European institutions will be...
The atomic age officially began on 6 August 1945 with the explosion of the first nuclear device for military purposes: the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Of course, everything had begun long before, with the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938...
