Politics
The Virus War
The coronavirus is changing our world radically. It has changed the day to day lives of hundreds of millions of people but it is also changing – perhaps in a less visible manner – international relations as well, and has...
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Politics
Has Hungary Gone Too Far with its Coronavirus Measures?
As numerous countries introduce their own emergency measures to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, Hungary has emerged as the first democratic casualty of this crisis. On March 30, the Hungarian Parliament voted by 137 to 53 to approve...
Events
Pandemics That Changed the Course Of Human History
As the apocalyptic fourth horseman of pestilence and death rides roughshod over the world spreading a pall of coronavirus, some no doubt think this plague signals the End Times or the work of the Antichrist, Satan’s chief agent on Earth....
Reportage / Society
Italy: in the Trench Hospital
The doctors in the intensive care department are at the point of exhaustion: “Here there are just desperate cases, we pray that a patient or two will wake up”. They are there behind that glass. The shapes are human but...
Society
COVID-19: here’s the heroes
Covid-19 in Italy: medical staff from the hospitals of Bergamo, Brescia, Rome
Economy
German State Financial Minister Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
The Covid-19 virus has already sent shockwaves through economies in nearly every nation, but in Germany it appears to have been too much to handle for one state minister. Thomas Schäfer, finance minister of the German state of Hesse, was...
Politics
What Impact Will Covid-19 Have on British Politics?
In an interview with the BBC‘s Laura Kuenssberg UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that the coronavirus has proven that the state has to spend more money “to right the social wrongs of this country.” Indeed, the British Government has...
Politics
How are Governments Functioning During Covid-19?
Covid-19 strikes without regard to a person’s gender, ethnicity, or status in life. The only discernible difference among infected people is the higher mortality rate that comes with their increased age. No one has been spared from possibly contracting it,...
Society
Why Comparatively Fewer Germans are Dying From Coronavirus
There is a surplus of bad news as the coronavirus pandemic worsens around the world. Among the more terrible headlines, however, Germans have reason to feel optimistic: although they have one of the highest rates of infection, the country’s death...
Politics
How Can the EU Stay United in the Fight Against Covid-19?
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen fears a loss of cohesion in the European Union due to the corona crisis. After the re-introduction of border controls in the face of the pandemic Europe is now “looking into the abyss,”...