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  • ROME, ITALY – OCTOBER 30: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi welcomes the French president Emmanuel Macron during the welcome ceremony on the first day of the Rome G20 summit, on October 30, 2021 in Rome, Italy. The G20 (or Group of Twenty) is an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 countries plus the European Union. It was founded in 1999 in response to several world economic crises. Italy currently holds the Presidency of the G20 and this year’s summit will focus on three broad, interconnected pillars of action: People, Planet, Prosperity. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)Politics

    From U.S. midterms to the heart of Europe: A year of election craziness poses major global risks in 2022

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  • PARIS, FRANCE – NOVEMBER 25: A medical worker administers a nasal swab to a patient inside a tent for rapid coronavirus disease in front of a pharmacy during the coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19) on November 25, 2021 in Paris, France. French Minister of Health Olivier Veran gave a press conference on Thursday, November 25, to announce new measures to deal with the health crisis due to Covid-19, while the number of cases has been increasing very rapidly in France for several days. He said in particular that all people over the age of 18 will have to justify on their health pass “from January 15” having received a booster dose at most seven months after the previous one. The validity period of negative Covid-19 tests giving entitlement to the health pass will also be reduced to 24 hours. France is facing a fifth wave of the Coronavirus disease. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)Health

    Europe too has a COVID testing crisis, and a Christmas Omicron wave is making it worse

    By David Meyer, Vivienne Walt, and others
  • Family on ski trip, Chamonix, FranceInternational

    Europe’s ski industry braces for another winter of pain as Omicron threatens the Alps

    By Vivienne Walt and Bernhard Warner
  • French Prime Minister Jean Castex (C) chats with Marins Pompiers de Marseille ((Marseille Marine Fire Department) at a Covid-19 vaccination center in Parc Chanot in Marseille, southern France, on December 13, 2021. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    COVID-19 vaccine passports work to push up jab rates—sometimes massively—25-country study finds

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  • People get vaccinated against COVID-19 during a visit by the British prime minister at the Health at the Stowe vaccination centre in central London on December 13, 2021. – England launched its ambitious coronavirus booster shot program while workers were once again ordered to stay home over a looming “tidal wave” of Omicron infections. (Photo by Jeremy Selwyn / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JEREMY SELWYN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    Omicron cases may already be peaking in South Africa, less than a month after the COVID-19 variant first surfaced

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  • WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 09: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers brief remarks before a meeting with the White House COVID-19 Response Team, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, Natalie Quillian and Dana Remus, in the State Dining Room at the White House on December 09, 2021 in Washington, DC. According to the White House, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris received information about the latest developments related to the Omicron variant. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Health

    The U.S. is fighting over vaccine mandates, but most workers support strong COVID-19 measures

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  • A skier holds his skies next to a restaurant terrace at Val Thorens ski resort, in the French Alps, south-eastern France, during the ski station’s opening week-end, on November 20, 2021. (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP) (Photo by PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    Europe’s ski resorts and skiers brace for another COVID-19 winter wipeout

    By Vivienne Walt, Christiaan Hetzner, and others
  • A worker harvesting palm fruitsEnvironment

    Europe’s new push to halt deforestation could make it harder to find many food treats—and furniture and car seats too

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  • VIENNA, AUSTRIA – OCTOBER 26: People, holding placards and banners, gather to protest against COVID-19 measures, vaccination and government following the increasing number of cases in recent days in front of the St. Charles Church in Vienna, Austria on October 26, 2021. (Photo by Askin Kiyagan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)International

    Austria to vaccine skeptics: Get the jab, or you’ll be locked down at home

    By Christiaan Hetzner and Vivienne Walt
  • Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen At The European ParliamentTech

    ‘Create a game changer for the world’: Facebook whistleblower tells Europe’s lawmakers to rein in Big Tech

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  • Prello house in Aix-en-Provence, France.Real Estate

    While Americans flip McMansions, Europeans are slicing Provence dream villas into shares normal people can afford

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  • MOSCOW, RUSSIA NOVEMBER 5, 2021: Healthcare workers take a patient to the admission ward at the Novomoskovsky multipurpose medical centre treating patients who suffer from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Sergei Karpukhin/TASS (Photo by Sergei KarpukhinTASS via Getty Images)Health

    Europe’s deadly new COVID-19 wave shows the perils of low vaccination rates

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  • Ma Jun portraitEnvironment

    ‘It would be very hard to fight us’: How Ma Jun and IPE became the corporate world’s go-to pollution trackers

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  • A couple hold a placard ‘I’m not a QR code’. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Toulouse against the near mandatory vaccination and against the mandatory health pass after Macron’s speech on July 12th. More then 234000 people demostrated across France up from 200000 last week. On July 12th, Macron announced the health pass will be mandatory for entry to a wide array of public venues such as cafes, theaters, concerts hall, cinemas, shopping malls, public transportation, public swimming pools, and even hospitals unless a critical situation, etc. The prohibition for public spaces for non-vaccinated people will begin on August 9th. Toulouse, France on August 7th 2021. (Photo by Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Health

    No jab, no job: Europe’s workers face tough measures as politicians lay down the law

    By Vivienne Walt and Bernhard Warner
  • France’s President Emmanuel Macron speaks in front of a screen with the word “Carbon” during the presentation of “France 2030” investment plan at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, on October 12, 2021. – Hydrogen, semiconductors or electric batteries: Emmanuel Macron details on October 12, 2021, the priority sectors of the “France 2030” plan to “bring out the champions of tomorrow”, in the face of Chinese and American competition and criticism of the “decline” of France. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)International

    Nuclear plants insulate France from the energy crisis. Now Macron is doubling down on them in a $35 billion moonshot plan

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