🇬🇧As the UK prepares for further easing on May 17, Macron announces France will start to ease in mid-May too. But do the numbers support the decision? 🇫🇷

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Lockdowns have forced prolonged changes in consumer habits that have devastated some sectors of the economy, but have also led others to thrive.

Several small companies got their start during the pandemic, like EYO, a sustainable sportswear brand, and Piece and Quiet, which produces mindfulness...

🇪🇺 Protests marched across Europe for May day, as workers and unions voiced their concerns about COVID-19 influenced economic downturn.

🇫🇷 This included clashes between the anti-government protesters in France and Turkey 🇹🇷 and the first May Labor Day parade since the start of the pandemic in ...

Across the UK, university students are taking exams. But some will finish their studies having never physically attended any lectures or classes.

The spike in COVID-19 infections last autumn meant universities were forced to switch to 100 percent online learning for many subjects.

There are com...

“I don't think there's ever been a zero tolerance approach to racism, to be totally honest, particularly in the sport of football.” ⚽

That’s Troy Townsend, head of development at the UK’s main sporting anti-racism and abuse charity, Kick It Out.

He spoke to CGTN Europe ahead of this weekend’s s...

Dancers, actors, choreographers and directors in Belgium are fighting back against COVID-19 restrictions in the best way they know how - by taking to the stage.

More than 120 theaters, cinemas and cultural centers said they would open their doors starting Friday, defying the current ban on ind...

😷 The pandemic hit the automotive industry hard, but there was one type of vehicle that managed to power ahead despite the downturn. The electric car.

🚗 Last year, a record 3 million new electric cars were registered, which is a 41 percent increase from the previous year.

🌍 By comparison, the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has spoken with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban on the pandemic and cooperation between the two nations.

As part of the call Orban expressed Hungary's gratitude for China's cooperation in delivering COVID-19 vaccines. He also touched on the diplomatic relations...

The launch of China’s unmanned module, the future living quarters for three crew on a permanent space station, is a “wonderful demonstration of soft, peaceful power,” says one the U.S’s leading space experts, James Head.

The module, named "Tianhe", or "Harmony of the Heavens", was launched on t...

🇨🇳 An international group of scientists are planning to test how weightless conditions affect cancer cells, and they are going to do it onboard the future China Space Station.

The capital city of Northern Ireland, Belfast, is no stranger to violence and division. While progress has been made in the past 23 years since the Good Friday Agreement ended ‘the Troubles,’ spates of unrest still take place.

CGTN Europe’s Andrew Wilson spent three days in Belfast speaking to ...

High-level talks between Germany and China have concluded with the promise that the two nations would continue their close economic and political cooperation, despite disagreements on human rights issues and Hong Kong.

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As trade continues to increase between China and Hungary, the demand for Chinese language skills is also growing. Budapest is home to the region's only Chinese bilingual school, where the language is spoken as readily as Hungarian and students are immersed in Chinese culture.

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It did not escape the world's attention that the rioters throwing petrol bombs in Belfast recently were too young to remember the peace deal signed 23 years ago.

The conclusion was that sectarian figures in the background were putting them up to it.

But it's not quite as simple as that. By and ...

“I have conformed in full with the code of conduct,” insisted UK prime minister Boris Johnson as he was put on the spot by opposition leader Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions about the funding for a decorative revamp of his official Downing Street flat. #pmqs

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Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster is facing a rebellion from within her Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) after a majority of members signed a letter seeking a confidence vote in her leadership.

It is understood that around 80 percent of DUP representatives at the Northern Ireland as...

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen urged the EU Parliament to ratify the post-Brexit trade deal, while also promising to give lawmakers the power to police any breaches of the accord.

In a statement, the Commission said that given the "exceptional character of the agreement, "adequ...

The scenes of hospitals overflowing and mass cremations have rocked the Indian expatriate community in Germany. Many are working to push politicians and companies to provide additional support.

Barjinder Sodhi, a community leader and business owner from Berlin has turned his restaurant into a r...

The scenes of hospitals overflowing and mass cremations have rocked the Indian expatriate community in Germany. Many are working to push politicians and companies to provide additional support.

Barjinder Sodhi, a community leader and business owner from Berlin has turned his restaurant into a r...

🥢🍲 Who’d have thought the Chinese diaspora would prefer home-cooking to sweet-and-sour chicken? 🐔🤔

Food delivery app HungryPanda is shaking up Europe's takeaway game by targeting the Chinese community with 'authentic' Asian food 🐼

And amid #COVID19, business is booming👇
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Italy's government unveiled on Monday the European Union's most expensive Coronavirus recovery plan. The country will receive $266 billion of EU and national funds in an effort to breath some life back into its struggling economy.

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As India’s death toll surges following one of the largest outbreaks of COVID-19 on the planet, leading epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani warns things will get “worse before they can get better.”

Read more: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2021-04-27/India-poised-for-more-COVID-19-deaths-as-vaccination...

🇮🇹 For the first time in months, restaurants have opened their doors in Italy as the country eases long-standing COVID-19 restrictions.

😷 But not all rules have been relaxed, and a curfew of 10pm local time is upsetting some restaurant owners.

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Sometimes those closest to the violence of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland can be found working hardest for reconciliation.

Robert McClenaghan was once an active member of the Youth IRA, a branch of the Irish Republican Army.

He still lives in the same house his family occupied in the 1960s ...