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late on Friday afternoon<\/strong><\/a> after days of behind-the-scenes intense negotiations, the deal is meant to allay the concerns of five Eastern European countries\u00a0\u2013 Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria\u00a0\u2013 while minimising the detrimental impact on Ukrainian agricultural exports, one of Kyiv's largest sources of revenues.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement \"preserves both Ukraine\u2019s exports capacity so it continues feeding the world, and our farmers' livelihoods,\" said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.<\/p>\n<p>Here's everything that we know about the deal.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why was a deal needed in the first place?<\/strong><\/h2><p>Ukraine is a global leader in the production of cereals, which used to be traded at large quantities and competitive prices around the world. But when Russia launched its large-scale invasion, commerce was heavily upended, particularly through the Black Sea route, which the Kremlin put under its tight control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to provide an alternative pathway, the EU decided last year to lift customs duties\u00a0on a wide range of Ukrainian imports, including agri-food products like wheat, maize, barley, poultry, eggs and sugar, which already enjoyed special treatment under the 2014 EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension of tariffs, together with uncertainty over the Black Sea, prompted a steep increase in Ukrainian trade through its land routes toward its European neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>For example: back in June, when the suspension entered into force, the 27 member states imported 548,838 tonnes of Ukrainian maize. By December, the same imports had jumped to 1,541,183 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>The influx caused deep concern among the countries in Ukraine's immediate periphery \u2014 Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria \u2014 who argued the oversupply was filling up warehouses, distorting economic dynamics and depressing prices for local producers.<\/p>\n<p>Under the threat of a looming summer harvest and continued protests by farmers, a key demographic in upcoming elections, the governments of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria moved to ban the import of a wide range of tariff-free Ukrainian products, including grain, a surprising decision that was <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//04//17//not-acceptable-eu-decries-bans-on-ukrainian-grain-imports-imposed-by-poland-and-hungary/">quickly denounced<\/strong><\/a> as incompatible with EU rules.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission then launched talks with the five Eastern European countries and Ukraine to reach an EU-wide solution that could lift the bans.<\/p>\n<h2>What's the essence of the deal?<\/h2><p>The deal imposes \"exceptional and temporary preventive measures\" on four Ukrainian products\u00a0\u2013\u00a0wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower seed \u2013 that the Commission considers to have the strongest disruptive effect.<\/p>\n<p>These products will be allowed only transit through the five Eastern European countries, which means they will not be stored in their territory nor purchased for domestic consumption. Instead, they will be sent directly to other member states or shipped around the world.<\/p>\n<p>This represents an important compromise by\u00a0Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, who had pushed for a larger list of products to be added to the only-transit measures.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, their national prohibitions targeted a much wider range of Ukrainian imports, such as dairy, fruits, sugar, honey, eggs, meat and wine.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels, however, insisted the solution needed to be proportionate and based on economic data.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/13440032?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>So what happens with the bans?<\/h2><p>As part of the deal, the five Eastern European countries agree to lift their unilateral bans and comply fully with the EU-wide arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>This means products that were previously banned, like poultry and vegetables, will now have to be allowed access to the internal market of the bordering states.<\/p>\n<p>The lifting of the bans is expected to happen by 2 May, when the preventive measures come into force.<\/p>\n<p>\"With this package, I am glad to say that we continue to pursue a unified EU approach, rather than unilateral measures which put at risk the normal functioning of our single market,\" Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission Executive Vice President who led the negotiations, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Could other products be targeted?<\/h2><p>Yes, but the European Commission will postpone any further decisions until 5 June, the date on which the current tariff-free regime is scheduled to expire.<\/p>\n<p>The preventive measures could be extended beyond 5 June \"as long as the exceptional situation continues,\" the executive <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////ec.europa.eu//commission//presscorner//detail//en//IP_23_2562/">has confirmed<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has already proposed to extend the regime for another year, until 5 June 2024. The legal text <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//04//28//eu-countries-back-renewal-of-tariff-free-system-for-ukrainian-grain-despite-ongoing-bans/">is still pending approval<\/strong><\/a> by the European Parliament and the EU Council.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new regulation, the EU will introduce an \"expedited safeguard\" to monitor market developments and reintroduce tariffs on products that \"adversely affect\" the entire European market.<\/p>\n<p>This option, much more radical in nature than the only-transit measures under the current deal, will be subject to strict conditions: the Commission will only launch a formal investigation after obtaining \"sufficient prima-facie evidence\" that a specific Ukrainian\u00a0product is causing adverse effects.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation will have to conclude within a period of three months.<\/p>\n<h2>What else is in the deal?<\/h2><p>Money.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the lifting of the bans, the European Commission will unblock a \u20ac100-million support package for farmers in\u00a0Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<p>The member states will be entitled to designate the companies and producers who are eligible for support and the Commission will later reimburse the expenses.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the executive rolls out this kind of support: in late March, the Commission approved a \u20ac56.3-million envelope for farmers in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria to compensate for the economic losses stemming from higher Ukrainian competition.<\/p>\n<p>A much vaguer element of the deal is a promise by the Commission to improve the functioning of solidarity lanes and ensure tariff-free imports leave the European market and reach developing countries in Africa and the Middle East, which rely heavily on low-cost Ukrainian foodstuffs.<\/p>\n<p>Logistical problems, high transport fees and a lack of modern infrastructure in Eastern Europe have also been blamed for the grain glut.\u00a0Privately, Commission officials admit these questions are too complex and deep-seated to be resolved under a temporary deal, which means pressure on local prices is expected to continue in the short term.<\/p>\n<p>\"No one pretends the safeguards will alone solve the problems behind the issue, but they create a breathing space,\" said a senior EU official.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683017900,"updatedAt":1683045032,"publishedAt":1683029315,"firstPublishedAt":1683029318,"lastPublishedAt":1683045032,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Nariman El-Mofty\/Copyright 2022 The AP. 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Belarus.","keySentence":"","url":"ukraine-pulls-out-of-world-judo-tournament-over-russian-and-belarusian-participation","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/02\/ukraine-pulls-out-of-world-judo-tournament-over-russian-and-belarusian-participation","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Ukrainian Judo Federation has announced it will not send a delegation to the World Judo Championships in Qatar from 7-14 May because of the presence of Russian and Belarusian judokas. \n\nThe Ukrainian Federation says some of its athletes are also active soldiers. \n\nThe International Judo Federation (IJF) on Sunday gave the green light for the Russians and Belarusians to attend the world championships on condition that they do so individually and as neutral athletes. \n\nBut the Ukrainian Federation argued that the \"majority of the Russian team is made up of athletes who are active soldiers in the army of the Russian Federation\"\u00a0which \"continues to wage a brutal war against our territory\". \n\n\"More than 250 Ukrainian athletes gave their lives to defend the country, including judokas,\" the Ukrainian federation said, adding: \"We see neither neutrality nor equal treatment nor a 'bridge to peace' as the international federation says in its resolution on the participation of Russians and Belarusians in the world championships in Doha\". \n\nUkrainian judoka Daria Bilodid haa called the IJF's decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes in Doha as \"unacceptable\". \n\n\"All these people who are going to participate in the world championships are military,\"\u00a0the 2019 world champion and Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist said in a post on Instagram. \n\n\"It doesn't make sense, does it?\"\u00a0 \n\nAmong the Russians registered for the world championships are Inal Tasoev, who competed at the World Military Championships in Paris in 2021.\u00a0 \n\nThe president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach said in March that Russian and Belarusian athletes would be able to \"compete as neutral individual athletes\" provided they did not \"actively support the war in Ukraine\". \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Ukrainian Judo Federation has announced it will not send a delegation to the World Judo Championships in Qatar from 7-14 May because of the presence of Russian and Belarusian judokas.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian Federation says some of its athletes are also active soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The International Judo Federation (IJF) on Sunday gave the green light for the Russians and Belarusians to attend the world championships on condition that they do so individually and as neutral athletes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" 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Federation\"\u00a0which \"continues to wage a brutal war against our territory\".<\/p>\n<p>\"More than 250 Ukrainian athletes gave their lives to defend the country, including judokas,\" the Ukrainian federation said, adding: \"We see neither neutrality nor equal treatment nor a 'bridge to peace' as the international federation says in its resolution on the participation of Russians and Belarusians in the world championships in Doha\".<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian judoka Daria Bilodid haa called the IJF's decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes in Doha as \"unacceptable\".<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7505484\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a 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30 June.","keySentence":"","url":"tinder-to-pull-out-of-russia-citing-human-rights-concerns","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2023\/05\/02\/tinder-to-pull-out-of-russia-citing-human-rights-concerns","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The company that owns some of the world\u2019s most popular dating apps, including Tinder, has announced it will pull out of Russia entirely this summer in an effort to uphold its stated commitment to respecting human rights. \n\nMatch, which also operates Hinge, OKCupid, PlentyOfFish and various other dating platforms, gave a hard date for its pullout in an annual impact report released on Monday. \n\n\u201cWe are committed to protecting human rights,\u201d reads a short paragraph within the section on \u201cCultivating a culture of integrity and reliability\u201d. \n\n\u201cOur brands are taking steps to restrict access to their services in Russia and will complete their withdrawal from the Russian market by June 30, 2023.\u201d \n\nThe move 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Last summer, it was fined 2 million roubles (\u20ac22,868) by a Moscow district court in a case brought against several platforms including WhatsApp, Snapchat, Spotify and Hotels.com. \n\nHowever, Match apps are also available for download in other countries with poor human rights records, among them Belarus, an authoritarian state and notorious rights violator which has offered a degree of military assistance in the invasion of Ukraine. \n\nMatch\u2019s withdrawal from Russia has been relatively slow compared to some other players in the online dating marketplace. 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Last summer, it was fined 2 million roubles (\u20ac22,868) by a Moscow district court in a case brought against several platforms including WhatsApp, Snapchat, Spotify and Hotels.com.<\/p>\n<p>However, Match apps are also available for download in other countries with poor human rights records, among them Belarus, an authoritarian state and notorious rights violator which has offered a degree of military assistance in the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Match\u2019s withdrawal from Russia has been relatively slow compared to some other players in the online dating marketplace. 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the ECHR has helped secure justice for the victims of child abuse, protect domestic survivors and ended a ban on members of the LGBT+ community serving in the armed forces .\u00a0 \n\nWhen asked \"should we stay in the ECHR\", 53% of respondents in the poll said \"remain\", while 27% wanted to \"leave\". Yet, when the question was put to Tory voters, 28% said \"remain\", compared to 55% wishing to \"leave\".\u00a0 \n\nMore than 3,000 adults were surveyed by the polling agency YouGov on behalf of The Sun. That's more than three times the size of most opinion polls, the newspaper claimed.\u00a0 \n\nThe poll painted a more mixed picture of the Rwanda plan, which would see asylum-seekers arriving in Britain illicitly given a one-way ticket to the East African country. \n\nSome 46% of respondents supported the policy, currently challenged in the courts. \n\nJust 38% opposed it.\u00a0 \n\nMore than 45,700 people crossed the English Channel in 2022, the highest figure since records began.\u00a0 \n\nJust over three-quarters of respondents (77%) in the poll said the government handling the \"small boat\" issue badly, compared to 12% believing it was managing \"well\".\u00a0 \n\nThe Rwanda plan has been widely condemned as inhumane, illegal and very expensive, though the government claims it is necessary to stop people smugglers from sending people on dangerous voyages across the Channel.\u00a0 \n\nIt is unclear how London's aims would be achieved with this policy, as observers point out that demand for smugglers is driven by a lack of safe and legal routes for those fleeing persecution to come to the country.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\nVoters for the right overwhelmingly support the policy at 75% to 18%, according to the poll.\u00a0 \n\nThe ECHR was drafted by British lawyers following the devastation of the Second World War.\u00a0 \n\nForty-six states are currently signed up to the landmark treaty, which prohibits torture, slavery and forced labour, while ensuring people have a right to security, liberty and a fair trial, among other things.\u00a0 \n\nIf a person feels their rights have been violated, they can take their case to the European Court of Human Rights.\u00a0 \n\nThe Strasbourg-based body can then rule against a state and order them to pay compensation to the victim. However, it cannot overrule national decisions or annual a country's laws.\u00a0 \n\nOnly two countries have ever left the ECHR: Greece when it became a dictatorship and Russia, which was kicked out after invading Ukraine.\u00a0 \n\n\nThe ECHR has nothing to do with the European Union, with 19 signatories not members of the bloc.\u00a0 \n\nBritain's wartime leader Winston Churchill was a staunch supporter of the ECHR, believing the treaty played a key role in protecting citizens from cruel and inhumane treatment by despotic governments within continental Europe. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A majority of Brits want to stay in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), a poll has found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commissioned by The Sun, a staunchly right-wing, pro-Brexit newspaper, the \"mega poll\" found nearly twice as many UK adults want their country to stay in the landmark international treaty, which protects freedoms and human rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Members of Britain's ruling Conservative Party have threatened to pull the UK out of the ECHR as it has obstructed their highly controversial crackdown on migration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, experts warn British citizens\u00a0<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//03//13//uk-citizens-will-lose-the-most-if-country-exits-european-convention-on-human-rights-warns-/">stand to lose the most<\/strong><\/a>, with the treaty typically protecting people who have been wronged by their own government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, the ECHR has helped secure justice for the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.coe.int//en//web//impact-convention-human-rights//united-kingdom/">victims of child abuse, protect domestic survivors and ended a ban on members of the LGBT+ community serving in the armed forces<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked \"should we stay in the ECHR\", 53% of respondents in the poll said \"remain\", while 27% wanted to \"leave\". Yet, when the question was put to Tory voters, 28% said \"remain\", compared to 55% wishing to \"leave\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,000 adults were surveyed by the polling agency YouGov on behalf of The Sun. That's more than three times the size of most opinion polls, the newspaper claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1635331657665323036\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The poll painted a more mixed picture of the Rwanda plan, which would see asylum-seekers arriving in Britain illicitly given a one-way ticket to the East African country.<\/p>\n<p>Some 46% of respondents supported the policy, currently challenged in the courts.<\/p>\n<p>Just 38% opposed it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 45,700 people crossed the English Channel in 2022, the highest figure since records began.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just over three-quarters of respondents (77%) in the poll said the government handling the \"small boat\" issue badly, compared to 12% believing it was managing \"well\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Rwanda plan has been widely condemned as inhumane, illegal and very expensive, though the government claims it is necessary to stop people smugglers from sending people on dangerous voyages across the Channel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how London's aims would be achieved with this policy, as observers point out that demand for smugglers is driven by a lack of safe and legal routes for those fleeing persecution to come to the country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Voters for the right overwhelmingly support the policy at 75% to 18%, according to the poll.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1537074895749783553\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The ECHR was drafted by British lawyers following the devastation of the Second World War.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forty-six states are currently signed up to the landmark treaty, which prohibits torture, slavery and forced labour, while ensuring people have a right to security, liberty and a fair trial, among other things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If a person feels their rights have been violated, they can take their case to the European Court of Human Rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Strasbourg-based body can then rule against a state and order them to pay compensation to the victim. 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They are expected to address two particularly delicate issues by endorsing a declaration on missing persons and discussing a first draft statute on the creation of an association of Serb majority municipalities in Kosovo. \n\n\nMiroslav Lajcak, Borrell's envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina negotiations, called Tuesday's meeting \"a crucial step forward\" and said it will be \"important to avoid any actions that could worsen the atmosphere.\" \n\nThe meeting follows a similar encounter in February when both countries' leaders gave tacit approval to the EU-sponsored plan to end months of political crises. Another March summit, held in North Macedonia, saw Belgrade and Pristina tentatively agree on how to implement the plan. \n\nHowever, the two countries have yet to fully apply many of the various agreements reached during in the 12-year-long EU-facilitated negotiations. \n\nAs things stand, Belgrade insists that Pristina must implement a 2013 agreement to establish an association of municipalities in the north of Kosovo which share a Serb-majority population, creating a new entity to coordinate local work on education, health care, land planning and economic development. Kosovo\u2019s Constitutional Court later declared the plan unconstitutional, ruling it wasn\u2019t inclusive of other ethnicities and could entail the use of executive powers. \n\nSerbia says no progress is possible in the talks before the association proposal is tackled. Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Kosovo will try to avoid any movement on the topic. \n\n\"We heard the same 10 years ago,\"\u00a0said Dacic. \"Everyone was thrilled that it was a historic act. Ten years passed and the association of Serb municipalities did not happen.\" \n\nLocal elections were held last month in Serb-dominated communes in northern Kosovo after Serb representatives had left their posts last year. The vote was overwhelmingly boycotted by ethnic Serbs. \n\nVu\u010di\u0107 praised the vote boycott and sharply criticised Western officials, calling them liars and frauds. He said the Serb minority in the former Serbian province will no longer tolerate foreign \"occupation\". \n\nThe talks will also tackle the issue of the more than 1,600 people still officially missing since the 1998-99 war. Most of them are ethnic Albanians, while a few are Serbs;\u00a0Kosovo accuses Serbia of hiding their locations. \n\nThe EU rule of law mission in Kosovo says it is difficult to find the bodies as many were buried in small, unmarked graves, or even in cemeteries, by perpetrators seeking to hide evidence. \n\nKosovo is a former Serbian province. The 1998-1999 war in Kosovo erupted when separatist ethnic Albanians rebelled against Serbian rule, and Belgrade responded with a brutal crackdown. About 13,000 people died, most of them ethnic Albanians. In 1999 a NATO military intervention forced Serbia to pull out of the territory; Kosovo declared independence in 2008, but Serbia does not officially recognise it. \n\nBrussels and the United States often intervene to defuse tensions between Belgrade and Pristina, more so in the past year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. \n\n\"The international community will pressure both Prime Minister Kurti and President Vu\u010di\u0107 to continue with a constructive approach, because that is the only way forward,\" said Kosovar analyst Artan Muhaxheri. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo are meeting in Brussels on Tuesday to continue talks on the implementation of a European Union-backed 11-point plan to normalise their relationship \u2013 but tensions continue to simmer.<\/p>\n<p>EU foreign policy chief <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//JosepBorrellF/">Josep Borrell<\/strong><\/a> will convene the high-level meeting between Serbian President <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//avucic/">Aleksandar/u00a0Vu/u010di/u0107and Kosovo Prime Minister <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//albinkurti/">Albin Kurti<\/strong><\/a>. They are expected to address two particularly delicate issues by endorsing a declaration on missing persons and discussing a first draft statute on the creation of an association of Serb majority municipalities in Kosovo. <\/p>\n<p>Miroslav Lajcak, Borrell's envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina negotiations, called Tuesday's meeting \"a crucial step forward\" and said it will be \"important to avoid any actions that could worsen the atmosphere.\"<\/p>\n<p>The meeting follows a similar encounter in February when both countries' leaders gave tacit approval to the EU-sponsored plan to end months of political crises. Another March summit, held in North Macedonia, saw Belgrade and Pristina tentatively agree on how to implement the plan.<\/p>\n<p>However, the two countries have yet to fully apply many of the various agreements reached during in the 12-year-long EU-facilitated negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>As things stand, Belgrade insists that Pristina must implement a 2013 agreement to establish an association of municipalities in the north of Kosovo which share a Serb-majority population, creating a new entity to coordinate local work on education, health care, land planning and economic development. Kosovo\u2019s Constitutional Court later declared the plan unconstitutional, ruling it wasn\u2019t inclusive of other ethnicities and could entail the use of executive powers.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia says no progress is possible in the talks before the association proposal is tackled. Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Kosovo will try to avoid any movement on the topic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1653144751359639553\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"We heard the same 10 years ago,\"\u00a0said Dacic. \"Everyone was thrilled that it was a historic act. Ten years passed and the association of Serb municipalities did not happen.\"<\/p>\n<p>Local elections were held last month in Serb-dominated communes in northern Kosovo after Serb representatives had left their posts last year. The vote was overwhelmingly boycotted by ethnic Serbs.<\/p>\n<p>Vu\u010di\u0107 praised the vote boycott and sharply criticised Western officials, calling them liars and frauds. He said the Serb minority in the former Serbian province will no longer tolerate foreign \"occupation\".<\/p>\n<p>The talks will also tackle the issue of the more than 1,600 people still officially missing since the 1998-99 war. Most of them are ethnic Albanians, while a few are Serbs;\u00a0Kosovo accuses Serbia of hiding their locations.<\/p>\n<p>The EU rule of law mission in Kosovo says it is difficult to find the bodies as many were buried in small, unmarked graves, or even in cemeteries, by perpetrators seeking to hide evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Kosovo is a former Serbian province. The 1998-1999 war in Kosovo erupted when separatist ethnic Albanians rebelled against Serbian rule, and Belgrade responded with a brutal crackdown. About 13,000 people died, most of them ethnic Albanians. In 1999 a NATO military intervention forced Serbia to pull out of the territory; Kosovo declared independence in 2008, but Serbia does not officially recognise it.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels and the United States often intervene to defuse tensions between Belgrade and Pristina, more so in the past year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\"The international community will pressure both Prime Minister Kurti and President Vu\u010di\u0107 to continue with a constructive approach, because that is the only way forward,\" said Kosovar analyst Artan Muhaxheri.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683018397,"updatedAt":1683026362,"publishedAt":1683026358,"firstPublishedAt":1683026362,"lastPublishedAt":1683026362,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","altText":"FILE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, and Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti meet with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, Brussels, on Feb. 27, 2023.","callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"caption":"FILE - 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A further eight people were treated by the London Ambulance Service at the scene. \n\nFollowing the incident, questions were raised about understaffed security and medical teams, fake ticket touts operating in the area, and the safety features of the venue itself. Academy Music Group (AMG), which runs Brixton Academy, voluntarily closed the venue before Lambeth council suspended its licence for three months. \n\nAMG told the BBC they had \u201cco-operated fully with the Metropolitan Police and Lambeth Council since the tragedy at Brixton occurred\u201d. \n\n\u201cWe have had regular meetings and discussions with the Metropolitan Police and Lambeth Council at which we have presented detailed proposals that we believe will enable the venue to reopen safely,\u201d they added. \u201cAMG has been awaiting feedback on those proposals for several weeks and looks forward to hearing from the police as soon as possible in constructive terms.\u201d \n\nThe petition, which asks for changes to be made to ensure there isn\u2019t a repeat of the tragedy while allowing the venue to re-open has reached over 50,000 signatures on Change.org . \n\n\u201cWhat happened there was a tragedy, but caused by people. People without tickets, security taking back handers etc,\u201d writes petition starter Stuart O'Brien. \n\n\u201cRevoke the security firm's licence and bring in someone adequate recommended by the police (security having been alleged to take back-handers to allow people into gigs, surely lies at the heart of those without tickets attending). Bring in new security procedures including crowd control to ensure a repeat doesn't happen, but let's not turn this venue into soulless flats as would more than likely happen in the event of permanent closure,\u201d he continues. \n\nPrimal Scream bassist retweeted the news, adding: \u201cBrixton Academy is such an important and historic venue for south London and live music. There is a police station literally opposite, surely with new management \/ infrastructure + security it can be improved ? instead of just shutting it down?\u201d \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The south London venue O2 Brixton Academy\u00a0had its licence suspended after two people died during a concert crush at the venue in December last year.<\/p>\n<p>The petition was set up after London\u2019s Metropolitan Police Force said it was seeking for the licence to be revoked.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, and security guard Gaby Hutchinson, 23, both died due to injuries sustained when hundreds more people than legal capacity attempted to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//01//17//brixton-o2-academy-concert-crush-blamed-on-security-taking-bribes/">attend a concert<\/strong><\/a> by Afro-pop star Asake. A further eight people were treated by the London Ambulance Service at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, questions were raised about understaffed security and medical teams, fake ticket touts operating in the area, and the safety features of the venue itself. Academy Music Group (AMG), which runs Brixton Academy, voluntarily closed the venue before Lambeth council suspended its licence for three months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//31//23//78//808x454_cmsv2_55214313-75f8-5de5-9197-4b2e885c34d5-7312378.jpg/" alt=\"Met Police\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/23\/78\/384x216_cmsv2_55214313-75f8-5de5-9197-4b2e885c34d5-7312378.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/23\/78\/640x360_cmsv2_55214313-75f8-5de5-9197-4b2e885c34d5-7312378.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/23\/78\/750x422_cmsv2_55214313-75f8-5de5-9197-4b2e885c34d5-7312378.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/23\/78\/828x466_cmsv2_55214313-75f8-5de5-9197-4b2e885c34d5-7312378.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/23\/78\/1080x608_cmsv2_55214313-75f8-5de5-9197-4b2e885c34d5-7312378.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/23\/78\/1200x675_cmsv2_55214313-75f8-5de5-9197-4b2e885c34d5-7312378.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/23\/78\/1920x1080_cmsv2_55214313-75f8-5de5-9197-4b2e885c34d5-7312378.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rebecca Ikumelo and Gaby Hutchinson<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Met Police<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>AMG told the BBC they had \u201cco-operated fully with the Metropolitan Police and Lambeth Council since the tragedy at Brixton occurred\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had regular meetings and discussions with the Metropolitan Police and Lambeth Council at which we have presented detailed proposals that we believe will enable the venue to reopen safely,\u201d they added. \u201cAMG has been awaiting feedback on those proposals for several weeks and looks forward to hearing from the police as soon as possible in constructive terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The petition, which asks for changes to be made to ensure there isn\u2019t a repeat of the tragedy while allowing the venue to re-open has reached over 50,000 signatures on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.change.org//p//save-brixton-academy-savebrixtonacademy/">Change.org./n
/u201cWhat happened there was a tragedy, but caused by people. People without tickets, security taking back handers etc,\u201d writes petition starter Stuart O'Brien.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRevoke the security firm's licence and bring in someone adequate recommended by the police (security having been alleged to take back-handers to allow people into gigs, surely lies at the heart of those without tickets attending). Bring in new security procedures including crowd control to ensure a repeat doesn't happen, but let's not turn this venue into soulless flats as would more than likely happen in the event of permanent closure,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brixton Academy is such an important and historic venue for south london and live music. There is a police a station literally opposite, surely with new management \/ infrastructure + security it can be improved ? instead of just shutting it down? <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////t.co//4vcS6xt8Ba/">https:////t.co//4vcS6xt8Ba— simone marie (@simonemarie4) <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//simonemarie4//status//1651322889004625921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>April 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////platform.twitter.com//widgets.js/" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Primal Scream bassist retweeted the news, adding: \u201cBrixton Academy is such an important and historic venue for south London and live music. There is a police station literally opposite, surely with new management \/ infrastructure + security it can be improved ? instead of just shutting it down?\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683023437,"updatedAt":1683024437,"publishedAt":1683024435,"firstPublishedAt":1683024437,"lastPublishedAt":1683024437,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"YUI MOK\/AP","altText":"Brixton Academy in 2005","callToActionText":null,"width":2278,"caption":"Brixton Academy in 2005","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/47\/24\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9ffe8b83-7589-5f8c-ac01-72691f1f8ec4-7574724.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1423}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"urlSafeValue":"walfisz","twitter":"@JonathanWalfisz","title":"Jonny Walfisz"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"united-kingdom","titleRaw":"United Kingdom","id":7800,"title":"United Kingdom","slug":"united-kingdom"},{"urlSafeValue":"music","titleRaw":"Music","id":11646,"title":"Music","slug":"music"},{"urlSafeValue":"police","titleRaw":"Police","id":11642,"title":"Police","slug":"police"},{"urlSafeValue":"konser-turne","titleRaw":"Concert","id":15202,"title":"Concert","slug":"konser-turne"},{"urlSafeValue":"death","titleRaw":"Death","id":8087,"title":"Death","slug":"death"}],"widgets":[{"count":1,"slug":"image"},{"count":1,"slug":"html"}],"related":[],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"culture-news","urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news","online":0,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/culture-news\/culture-news"},"vertical":"culture","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"culture","id":10,"title":"Culture","slug":"culture"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"culture-news","id":"culture-news","title":"Culture news","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/culture-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":53,"urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":291,"urlSafeValue":"united-kingdom","title":"United Kingdom","url":"\/news\/europe\/united-kingdom"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'gb_safe','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','pos_ukraine-russia','pos_ukrainecrisis','gs_entertain_music','castrol_negative_uk','neg_mobkoi_castrol','neg_facebook_2021','gs_law','neg_nespresso','gt_negative','gs_event_music_festival','gs_seasevnt_musicfest','gs_seasevnt','neg_facebook','gv_death_injury','gv_crime','gt_negative_sadness'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"daletEventName":"Culture - Petition to save Brixton Academy reaches 50,000 signatures","path":"\/culture\/2023\/05\/02\/petition-to-save-london-concert-venue-brixton-academy-reaches-50000-signatures","lastModified":1683024437},{"id":2262792,"cid":7574248,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230502_E3SU_51465604","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"George Orwell to finally make it to Huesca as Spanish city honours writer","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"George Orwell to finally enter Huesca as Spanish city honours writer","titleListing2":"The English author, who penned \"Homage to Catalonia\" and \"1984\", fought on the Republican side in the Spanish civil war. His son has led a campaign to fund a memorial in Huesca.","leadin":"The English author, who penned \"Homage to Catalonia\" and \"1984\", fought on the Republican side in the Spanish civil war but was invalidated after being shot in the neck.","summary":"The English author, who penned \"Homage to Catalonia\" and \"1984\", fought on the Republican side in the Spanish civil war but was invalidated after being shot in the neck.","keySentence":"","url":"george-orwell-to-finally-make-it-to-huesca-as-spanish-city-honours-writer","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2023\/05\/02\/george-orwell-to-finally-make-it-to-huesca-as-spanish-city-honours-writer","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"When George Orwell fought on the Republican side in the Spanish civil war, his\u00a0 division was poised to take the eastern city of Huesca. \n\nConfident of victory over the Nationalists, the generals promised the troops\u00a0 they would soon be drinking coffee in the city but it never came to pass. \n\nNow, almost 90 years after the writer of \"Homage to Catalonia\" nearly lost his\u00a0 life in the 1936-1939 war, he might finally make it to Huesca \u2013 in a way \u2013 when\u00a0 a frieze is erected there in his memory in the city. \n\nRichard Blair, Orwell\u2019s son, has led a campaign with Victor Pardo, a Spanish\u00a0 historian, who preserves the writer\u2019s memory in Spain, to fund the memorial\u00a0 in Huesca. \n\nCampaigners in Britain and Spain have mounted a GoFundMe campaign and\u00a0 need only about \u00a37,000 before they can start work on the frieze on a wall\u00a0 which will be entitled Orwell Takes Coffee in Huesca. \n\nSo far, the Orwell Society, which preserves the memory of the man who wrote \" 1984\" and \"Animal Farm\", has raised about \u00a310,000, while Mr Pardo has raised\u00a0 the other \u00a310,000. \n\nTo help the campaign, Mr Blair has promised to match every \u00a31 donated by\u00a0 giving \u00a31 of his own money. \n\nWith the help of tax aid from the British government, this has raised the\u00a0 amount collected by campaigners. \n\n\u201cAfter Orwell came back from rest in Barcelona, he went back to the hills overlooking Huesca. The generals said tomorrow we will have coffee in Huesca but it never happened,\u201d Mr Blair told Euronews. \n\n\u201c(Later) my father was shot through the neck and was invalided out of the civil war. Orwell and the republicans never penetrated Huesca.\u201d \n\nMr Blair said the frieze may raise the profile of the trenches in Aragon, the region of which Huesca is the capital, where Orwell fought. \n\nThe trenches have been preserved as a tourist attraction for Orwell\u00a0 enthusiasts and those interested in the history of the civil war. \n\n\u201cI hope that my father would approve. I hope it will do good. I am conscious of\u00a0 interfering with local politics. I don\u2019t want to trample on people\u2019s sensibilities.\u00a0 But if it is approved then I am happy to contribute,\u201d Mr Blair, whose father\u00a0 died in 1950 when he was five years old, said. \n\n\u201cIt is a little corner of the civil war which has yet to be unearthed, particularly\u00a0 in that corner of the world. We have always been very well received. People\u00a0 said they thought Orwell was very honest in \"Homage to Catalonia.\" \n\nOrwell arrived in Spain in 1936 to fight for the Spanish Republic in the POUM,\u00a0 a left-wing militia. He nearly died when he was shot in the neck on May 20 in\u00a0 1937 while serving in Aragon. \n\nLuck meant the bullet shot through a tiny space of about one centimetre\u00a0 between Orwell\u2019s carotid artery and larynx, which bruised his vocal chords but\u00a0 he survived. \n\n\u201cOrwell said that his time in Spain was the most important in his life,\u201d said Mr\u00a0 Pardo. \n\n\u201cWe hope that even though in his life he did not make it to Huesca, this will be\u00a0 a symbolic arrival for him to this city. And that it will attract people to come\u00a0 and see this part of Spain.\u201d \n\nQuentin Kopp, the chair of the Orwell Society, has been a key figure in the\u00a0 campaign. \n\n\u201cThe point of this would be to give recognition to Orwell for his involvement in\u00a0 the Spanish civil war and to raise the profile of Aragon which is a poor place in\u00a0 terms of opportunities. This is another reason why people might go into\u00a0 Huesca,\u201d he told Euronews. \n\n\u201cHopefully we have raised almost enough money and we can get it done this\u00a0 year.\u201d \n\nHis father Georges Kopp was the commanding officer of Orwell\u2019s division in\u00a0 the civil war. \n\nIn \"Homage to Catalonia\", Orwell\u2019s account of his part in the civil war, he\u00a0 recounts Kopp\u2019s various acts of personal bravery. \n\nLater, after the war, Kopp married into the Orwell family so Richard Blair and\u00a0 Quentin Kopp are cousins. \n\nHuesca city council has promised to pay for the erection of the frieze. \n\nIn the city, a wall bears grim remembrance to the scores of left-wingers who\u00a0 were executed on the orders of General Francisco Franco\u2019s troops simply for\u00a0 being on the wrong side. \n\nThe wall has a plaque with all their names so they are not forgotten. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>When George Orwell fought on the Republican side in the Spanish civil war, his\u00a0division was poised to take the eastern city of Huesca.<\/p>\n<p>Confident of victory over the Nationalists, the generals promised the troops\u00a0they would soon be drinking coffee in the city but it never came to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Now, almost 90 years after the writer of \"Homage to Catalonia\" nearly lost his\u00a0life in the 1936-1939 war, he might finally make it to Huesca \u2013 in a way \u2013 when\u00a0a frieze is erected there in his memory in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Blair, Orwell\u2019s son, has led a campaign with Victor Pardo, a Spanish\u00a0historian, who preserves the writer\u2019s memory in Spain, to fund the memorial\u00a0in Huesca.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners in Britain and Spain have mounted a GoFundMe campaign and\u00a0need only about \u00a37,000 before they can start work on the frieze on a wall\u00a0which will be entitled Orwell Takes Coffee in Huesca.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the Orwell Society, which preserves the memory of the man who wrote \"1984\" and \"Animal Farm\", has raised about \u00a310,000, while Mr Pardo has raised\u00a0the other \u00a310,000.<\/p>\n<p>To help the campaign, Mr Blair has promised to match every \u00a31 donated by\u00a0giving \u00a31 of his own money.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of tax aid from the British government, this has raised the\u00a0amount collected by campaigners.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-left\" data-ratio=\"0.8052078117175764\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//57//42//48//808x652_cmsv2_0ca8fe2c-e938-5749-9a17-42a3c729d45d-7574248.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/42\/48\/384x309_cmsv2_0ca8fe2c-e938-5749-9a17-42a3c729d45d-7574248.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/42\/48\/640x515_cmsv2_0ca8fe2c-e938-5749-9a17-42a3c729d45d-7574248.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/42\/48\/750x604_cmsv2_0ca8fe2c-e938-5749-9a17-42a3c729d45d-7574248.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/42\/48\/828x667_cmsv2_0ca8fe2c-e938-5749-9a17-42a3c729d45d-7574248.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/42\/48\/1080x870_cmsv2_0ca8fe2c-e938-5749-9a17-42a3c729d45d-7574248.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/42\/48\/1200x966_cmsv2_0ca8fe2c-e938-5749-9a17-42a3c729d45d-7574248.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/42\/48\/1920x1546_cmsv2_0ca8fe2c-e938-5749-9a17-42a3c729d45d-7574248.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Writer George Orwell.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter Orwell came back from rest in Barcelona, he went back to the hills overlooking Huesca. The generals said tomorrow we will have coffee in Huesca but it never happened,\u201d Mr Blair told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Later) my father was shot through the neck and was invalided out of the civil war. Orwell and the republicans never penetrated Huesca.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Blair said the frieze may raise the profile of the trenches in Aragon, the region of which Huesca is the capital, where Orwell fought.<\/p>\n<p>The trenches have been preserved as a tourist attraction for Orwell\u00a0enthusiasts and those interested in the history of the civil war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that my father would approve. I hope it will do good. I am conscious of\u00a0interfering with local politics. I don\u2019t want to trample on people\u2019s sensibilities.\u00a0But if it is approved then I am happy to contribute,\u201d Mr Blair, whose father\u00a0died in 1950 when he was five years old, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a little corner of the civil war which has yet to be unearthed, particularly\u00a0in that corner of the world. We have always been very well received. People\u00a0said they thought Orwell was very honest in \"Homage to Catalonia.\"<\/p>\n<p>Orwell arrived in Spain in 1936 to fight for the Spanish Republic in the POUM,\u00a0a left-wing militia. He nearly died when he was shot in the neck on May 20 in\u00a01937 while serving in Aragon.<\/p>\n<p>Luck meant the bullet shot through a tiny space of about one centimetre\u00a0between Orwell\u2019s carotid artery and larynx, which bruised his vocal chords but\u00a0he survived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrwell said that his time in Spain was the most important in his life,\u201d said Mr\u00a0Pardo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that even though in his life he did not make it to Huesca, this will be\u00a0a symbolic arrival for him to this city. And that it will attract people to come\u00a0and see this part of Spain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quentin Kopp, the chair of the Orwell Society, has been a key figure in the\u00a0campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point of this would be to give recognition to Orwell for his involvement in\u00a0the Spanish civil war and to raise the profile of Aragon which is a poor place in\u00a0terms of opportunities. This is another reason why people might go into\u00a0Huesca,\u201d he told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully we have raised almost enough money and we can get it done this\u00a0year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His father Georges Kopp was the commanding officer of Orwell\u2019s division in\u00a0the civil war.<\/p>\n<p>In \"Homage to Catalonia\", Orwell\u2019s account of his part in the civil war, he\u00a0recounts Kopp\u2019s various acts of personal bravery.<\/p>\n<p>Later, after the war, Kopp married into the Orwell family so Richard Blair and\u00a0Quentin Kopp are cousins.<\/p>\n<p>Huesca city council has promised to pay for the erection of the frieze.<\/p>\n<p>In the city, a wall bears grim remembrance to the scores of left-wingers who\u00a0were executed on the orders of General Francisco Franco\u2019s troops simply for\u00a0being on the wrong side.<\/p>\n<p>The wall has a plaque with all their names so they are not forgotten.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683017083,"updatedAt":1683021622,"publishedAt":1683021603,"firstPublishedAt":1683020053,"lastPublishedAt":1683021622,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Quentin Kopp","altText":"Richard Blair at the unveiling of a statue of his father, George Orwell, outside the BBC headquarters in London, England, on November 7, 2017. 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The question is: How quickly will the bank go? \n\nAnalysts say the ECB's meeting Thursday in Frankfurt could end in an increase of a quarter- or a half-percentage point.\u00a0 \n\nA quarter-point hike would be a moderation in the bank's series of rapid increases, while a half-point would underline concern that inflation is still not heading back toward the bank's goal of two per cent considered best for the economy. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Europe's painful inflation inched higher last month, extending the squeeze on households and keeping pressure on the European Central Bank to unleash another large interest rate increase.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices in the 20 countries using the euro currency jumped 7% in April from a year earlier, just down from the annual rate of 6.9 per cent in March, the European Union statistics agency Eurostat said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Food prices eased a little, falling to an annual 13.6 per cent from March\u2019s 15.5 per cent, while energy prices rose a more modest 2.5per cent.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7572076,7563390,7509112\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//04//27//windfall-tax-needed-for-other-sectors-of-european-economy-trade-unions/">Windfall tax needed for other sectors of European economy - trade unions<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//01//uk-nurses-stage-largest-ever-strike-for-higher-pay-as-inflation-crushes-staff-wages/">UK nurses stage largest ever strike for higher pay as inflation crushes staff wages<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2023//04//19//how-important-is-an-adequate-eu-minimum-wage-in-a-high-inflation-context-the-latvian-case/">How important is an adequate EU minimum wage in a high-inflation context? 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home to several world-class, PGA tour-standard facilities, including ones designed by legends of the sport Nick Faldo and Colin Montgomerie, offering a choice of 17 different 18-hole championship courses, two links courses and 16 forest courses. \n\nWhat makes Belek a golfer's paradise? \n\nThe climate certainly helps \u2013 it allows golfers to play every month of the year, in average temperatures of 24\u00b0C and with more than 300 days of guaranteed sunshine. \n\nIt's also just a 35-minute drive from Antalya airport and chock full of luxury hotels, meaning there's no valuable time on the course lost travelling from your accommodation, and you can play the same day you arrive or fly home. Then there\u2019s the setting, with Belek's courses sitting between the mountains and the sea, and home to an abundant variety of wildlife, particularly birds. \n\nThe facilities are world-class, with state-of-the-art practice facilities and lessons with PGA-certified instructors on offer, making it an ideal location for beginners and experts alike. The choice of clubs also reflects its wide appeal, with a different course for every day of your holiday \u2013 at the seaside links, you could be on the legendary Aspendos Course at Cullinan Links in Belek, while the floodlights at Montgomerie Maxx Royal and Carya Golf Club both offer the chance to play on past sundown. \n\nBelek is also home to the only TrackMan range in Europe based at Gloria Golf club, with technology which allows golfers to track the distance, height, and speed of their ball. \n\nGolfers in Belek are in esteemed company too. Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia, Rory Mcllroy and Tiger Woods have all played there. \n\nAt the Turkish Airlines Open 2013, Woods became the first person to hit a golf ball from Asia to Europe, teeing off from the Bosphorus Bridge, before flying down to Belek to headline T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s first-ever European Tour event. \n\nTop resorts \n\nOne of the oldest golf resorts in Belek, the Kempinski Hotel The Dome, remains one of the most popular. Its PGA Sultan Course has 18 holes over 6,411 metres (par 71), while the Pasha Course is 18 holes over 5,731 metres (par 72). \n\nThe Old Course offers 18 holes over 6,411 metres (par 72), and the New Course 18 holes over 6,523 metres (par 72), while the Verde Course is 9 holes over 2,923 metres (par 35). \n\nThe Montgomerie Maxx Royal Golf Club & Resort was designed by legendary Scottish golfer Colin Montgomerie, and the 18-hole course \u2013 over 6,486 metres (par 72) \u2013 is one of the toughest in the region, as well as one of those to offer a night golf experience. \n\nSimilarly, the Robinson Nobilis Golf Club & Resort's 18-hole course (over 6,257 metres, par 72) was designed by Dave Thomas, back in 1998 when T\u00fcrkiye was first making a name for itself in the world of golf, while the Lykia Links Golf Club & Resort was one of the first links courses to be built in the southern Mediterranean, designed by renowned American golf architect Perry Dye and offering 18 holes over 6,950 metres (par 73). \n\nFun for the whole family \n\nBut the deciding factor might just be what you can do in Belek besides play golf... as anyone with a golf widow (AKA a spouse who doesn\u2019t play golf) and a family to consider will probably attest. \n\nBesides the beaches, luxury resorts and the area's famed thermal spas and hamams, there are water sports and kids' clubs on offer. \n\nThe nearby Antalya Archaeology Museum has on display artefacts from the ancient cities of Side, Aspendos and Perge, while archaeological sites in the area include the Roman ancient theatre at Aspendos, the ancient city of Perge and the Temple of Apollo, while the ancient theatre of Aspendos plays host to the annual Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival in August and September. \n\nFor something a little less sedate, you can take a jeep safari, go river rafting in the K\u00f6pr\u00fcl\u00fc Canyon national park, visit the Kur\u015funlu waterfall or trek along the trails connecting the ancient cities of Lycia and Pisidia, or take a botanic tour in Tahtal\u0131 Mountain, Kemer, \u00c7\u0131ral\u0131 and Ka\u015f. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>In 1994, T\u00fcrkiye's National Golf Club opened in Belek on the southern Mediterranean coast, the first course in the region although the sport was first introduced to the country in the days of the Ottoman Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by former PGA and European tour professionals David Feherty and David Jones, it became the first course ever to host an international professional tournament in T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 30 years later, Belek is firmly established as one of the world's best golfing destinations, surrounded by eucalyptus and pine forests and dotted with lakes, over a terrain of 100 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>It plays host to more than 50 tournaments a year, including the Turkish Airlines Challenge and the Turkish Airlines Open.<\/p>\n<p>It is now home to several world-class, PGA tour-standard facilities, including ones designed by legends of the sport Nick Faldo and Colin Montgomerie, offering a choice of 17 different 18-hole championship courses, two links courses and 16 forest courses.<\/p>\n<h2>What makes Belek a golfer's paradise?<\/h2><p>The climate certainly helps \u2013 it allows golfers to play every month of the year, in average temperatures of 24\u00b0C and with more than 300 days of guaranteed sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>It's also just a 35-minute drive from Antalya airport and chock full of luxury hotels, meaning there's no valuable time on the course lost travelling from your accommodation, and you can play the same day you arrive or fly home. 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The choice of clubs also reflects its wide appeal, with a different course for every day of your holiday \u2013 at the seaside links, you could be on the legendary Aspendos Course at Cullinan Links in Belek, while the floodlights at Montgomerie Maxx Royal and Carya Golf Club both offer the chance to play on past sundown.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-large widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.2132701421800949\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//42//50//84//808x985_cmsv2_f3a27351-e4d6-5696-b8e5-64e277902422-7425084.jpg/" alt=\"AP\/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/42\/50\/84\/384x466_cmsv2_f3a27351-e4d6-5696-b8e5-64e277902422-7425084.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/42\/50\/84\/640x776_cmsv2_f3a27351-e4d6-5696-b8e5-64e277902422-7425084.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/42\/50\/84\/750x910_cmsv2_f3a27351-e4d6-5696-b8e5-64e277902422-7425084.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/42\/50\/84\/828x1005_cmsv2_f3a27351-e4d6-5696-b8e5-64e277902422-7425084.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/42\/50\/84\/1080x1310_cmsv2_f3a27351-e4d6-5696-b8e5-64e277902422-7425084.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/42\/50\/84\/1200x1456_cmsv2_f3a27351-e4d6-5696-b8e5-64e277902422-7425084.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/42\/50\/84\/1920x2329_cmsv2_f3a27351-e4d6-5696-b8e5-64e277902422-7425084.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 40vw, 490px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Golf legends who have played in Belek include Tiger Woods, seen here in 2012 at the World Golf Final.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Belek is also home to the only TrackMan range in Europe based at Gloria Golf club, with technology which allows golfers to track the distance, height, and speed of their ball.<\/p>\n<p>Golfers in Belek are in esteemed company too. Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia, Rory Mcllroy and Tiger Woods have all played there.<\/p>\n<p>At the Turkish Airlines Open 2013, Woods became the first person to hit a golf ball from Asia to Europe, teeing off from the Bosphorus Bridge, before flying down to Belek to headline T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s first-ever European Tour event.<\/p>\n<h2>Top resorts<\/h2><p>One of the oldest golf resorts in Belek, the Kempinski Hotel The Dome, remains one of the most popular. Its PGA Sultan Course has 18 holes over 6,411 metres (par 71), while the Pasha Course is 18 holes over 5,731 metres (par 72).<\/p>\n<p>The Old Course offers 18 holes over 6,411 metres (par 72), and the New Course 18 holes over 6,523 metres (par 72), while the Verde Course is 9 holes over 2,923 metres (par 35).<\/p>\n<p>The Montgomerie Maxx Royal Golf Club & Resort was designed by legendary Scottish golfer Colin Montgomerie, and the 18-hole course \u2013 over 6,486 metres (par 72) \u2013 is one of the toughest in the region, as well as one of those to offer a night golf experience.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6671875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" 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1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/42\/50\/84\/1920x1281_cmsv2_432bfe75-1965-5a6d-bfd5-10376770a0d5-7425084.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The floodlights at Montgomerie Maxx Royal and Carya Golf Club offer the chance to play nightgolf..<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">GoT\u00fcrkiye<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Similarly, the Robinson Nobilis Golf Club & Resort's 18-hole course (over 6,257 metres, par 72) was designed by Dave Thomas, back in 1998 when T\u00fcrkiye was first making a name for itself in the world of golf, while the Lykia Links Golf Club & Resort was one of the first links courses to be built in the southern Mediterranean, designed by renowned American golf architect Perry Dye and offering 18 holes over 6,950 metres (par 73).<\/p>\n<h2>Fun for the whole family<\/h2><p>But the deciding factor might just be what you can do in Belek besides play golf... as anyone with a golf widow (AKA a spouse who doesn\u2019t play golf) and a family to consider will probably attest.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the beaches, luxury resorts and the area's famed thermal spas and hamams, there are water sports and kids' clubs on offer.<\/p>\n<p>The nearby Antalya Archaeology Museum has on display artefacts from the ancient cities of Side, Aspendos and Perge, while archaeological sites in the area include the Roman ancient theatre at Aspendos, the ancient city of Perge and the Temple of Apollo, while the ancient theatre of Aspendos plays host to the annual Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival in August and September.<\/p>\n<p>For something a little less sedate, you can take a jeep safari, go river rafting in the K\u00f6pr\u00fcl\u00fc Canyon national park, visit the 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But he stopped short of giving an estimate of the Ukrainian casualty figure, saying \"they are the victims here\". \n\n\"Russia is the aggressor,\" he added. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Around 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed over the last five months in Ukraine, the US said on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters 100,000 men had been killed or wounded in the Bakhmut region and other areas of Ukraine since December.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Euronews cannot independently verify these figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The extent of losses on either side is difficult to estimate, with officials remaining quiet about how many soldiers they have lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has not commented on the US claim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the dead are believed to be from Russia's Wagner mercenary force, which was recently filled with convicts who were offered reduced or annulled prison sentences to fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They have been attacking Bakhmut since last year, with analysts likening the eastern city to a meat grinder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials have echoed this comment, saying they are using the ferocious battle to kill as many of Russia's troops as possible and exhaust its war effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it is likely Ukraine has also suffered significant losses, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1641121281222361111\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Moscow has reportedly captured most of Bakhmut, which sits in the prized eastern Donbas region, but Ukrainian troops cling on in a small portion of the city to the West.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though its strategic importance is debated, the small salt mining city\u00a0has taken on huge symbolic importance for both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine wants to prove its ability to resist Russia, seeing this as a precursor to Western support, while Russia is eager to obtain a clear battlefield victory that it can point to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Wagner,\u00a0Yevgeny Prigozhin, has also staked his reputation on seizing the city.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Monday, White House spokesman Kirby said Moscow had made minor gains in Bakmut, but this had come at a \"terrible, terrible cost\" and their effort had \"stalled\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Russia's attempt at a winter offensive in the Donbas largely through Bakhmut has failed,\" he said.\u00a0\"Russia has been unable to seize any strategically significant territory.\"<\/p>\n<p>The US official claimed that Ukraine's defences remained strong. 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Monday.","keySentence":"","url":"brawls-break-out-as-turks-vote-in-pivotal-election-overseas","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/02\/brawls-break-out-as-turks-vote-in-pivotal-election-overseas","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Brawls broke out at polling stations in the southern French city of\u00a0Marseille yesterday, as Turks living abroad voted in pivotal elections back home.\u00a0 \n\nFour police officers were reportedly injured trying to separate fans of the incumbent leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and those who oppose him. \n\nThe first fight occurred at around 2:30 p.m. local time, with four people hospitalised from the violence.\u00a0 \n\nOfficers later used tear gas.\u00a0 \n\n\nClashes continued throughout the day, despite the presence of police, and two people were arrested.\u00a0 \n\nElections in Turkey will take place on 14 May, but Turkey's large ex-pat community is being allowed to vote weeks before.\u00a0 \n\nIt is one of the most significant votes in years, which will shape Turkey's political destiny.\u00a0 \n\nErdogan, who has ruled the country for more than 20 years, is facing a united opposition for the first time since coming to office.\u00a0 \n\nHis support has been battered in recent years as Turkey's once-strong economy has hit the rocks, with the Turkish lira collapsing in value.\u00a0 \n\nMeanwhile, some accuse the 69-year-old of taking Turkey towards authoritarianism and undermining the secular principles it was founded upon.\u00a0 \n\nHowever, Erdogan retains high levels of support, especially among religious and more conservative voters, with polls predicting a tight race between him and his opponent\u00a0Kemal Kili\u00e7daroglu.\u00a0 \n\n74-year-old Kili\u00e7daroglu heads an alliance of six opposition parties, ranging from the nationalist right to the democratic left.\u00a0 \n\n\nHe is the head of the CHP founded by the father of modern Turkey,\u00a0Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.\u00a0 \n\nKili\u00e7daroglu has vowed to expel the country's large Syrian refugee population of around 3.5 million should he win the election.\u00a0 \n\n\nIf both camps claim to win the first round, a possible second would be organised for 28 May.\u00a0 \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Brawls broke out at polling stations in the southern French city of\u00a0Marseille yesterday, as Turks living abroad voted in pivotal elections back home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four police officers were reportedly injured trying to separate fans of the incumbent leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and those who oppose him.<\/p>\n<p>The first fight occurred at around 2:30 p.m. local time, with four people hospitalised from the violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers later used tear gas.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Clashes continued throughout the day, despite the presence of police, and two people were arrested.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elections in Turkey will take place on 14 May, but Turkey's large ex-pat community is being allowed to vote weeks before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the most significant votes in years, which will shape Turkey's political destiny.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1590407352490283012\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Erdogan, who has ruled the country for more than 20 years, is facing a united opposition for the first time since coming to office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His support has been battered in recent years as Turkey's once-strong economy has hit the rocks, with the Turkish lira collapsing in value.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some accuse the 69-year-old of taking Turkey towards authoritarianism and undermining the secular principles it was founded upon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Erdogan retains high levels of support, especially among religious and more conservative voters, with polls predicting a tight race between him and his opponent\u00a0Kemal Kili\u00e7daroglu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>74-year-old Kili\u00e7daroglu heads an alliance of six opposition parties, ranging from the nationalist right to the democratic left.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>He is the head of the CHP founded by the father of modern Turkey,\u00a0Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kili\u00e7daroglu has vowed to expel the country's large Syrian refugee population of around 3.5 million should he win the election.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>If both camps claim to win the first round, a possible second would be organised for 28 May.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683005861,"updatedAt":1683007469,"publishedAt":1683007467,"firstPublishedAt":1683007469,"lastPublishedAt":1683007469,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"ADEM ALTAN\/AFP or licensors","altText":"Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cheer during his 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- Turkey election brawls","path":"\/2023\/05\/02\/brawls-break-out-as-turks-vote-in-pivotal-election-overseas","lastModified":1683007469},{"id":2262448,"cid":7573334,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230502_NWSU_51461599","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Russia missile attack on Ukraine injures 34, damages homes","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Russia missile attack on Ukraine injures 34, damages homes","titleListing2":"Russia missile attack on Ukraine injures 34, damages homes","leadin":"Russia launched its second large salvo of missiles at Ukraine in recent days early Monday, damaging buildings, killing two people and wounding 40 in the eastern city of Pavlohrad but failing to hit Kyiv, officials said.","summary":"Russia launched its second large salvo of missiles at Ukraine in recent days early Monday, damaging buildings, killing two people and wounding 40 in the eastern city of Pavlohrad but failing to hit Kyiv, officials said.","keySentence":"","url":"russia-missile-attack-on-ukraine-injures-34-damages-homes","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/02\/russia-missile-attack-on-ukraine-injures-34-damages-homes","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Air raid sirens began blaring across the capital at about 3:45am, followed by explosions as Ukrainian defense systems intercepted missiles. \n\nEighteen cruise missiles were fired from the Murmansk and Caspian regions, and 15 of them were intercepted, Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said. \n\nKyiv\u2019s city administration head Serhii Popko said all missiles fired at the city were shot down, as well as some drones. He didn\u2019t provide further details. \n\nThe attack follows Friday's launch of more than 20 cruise missiles and two explosive drones at Ukraine, the first to target Kyiv in nearly two months. \n\nIn that attack, Russian missiles hit an apartment building in Uman, a city about 215 kilometres south of Kyiv, killing 21 people, including three children. \n\nIn Monday's attack, missiles hit Pavlohrad, in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, killing two people and wounding 40, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. \n\nSeven missiles were shot at the city and \u201csome were intercepted\u201d but others struck an industrial facility, sparking a fire, authorities said. Damage was reported to 24 apartment buildings, 89 homes, six schools and five shops, according to regional authorities. \n\nMissiles also hit three other areas in the Dnipropetrovsk region, damaging residential buildings and a school, said Serhii Lysak, the region\u2019s top official. \n\nRussian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Monday that Russia conducted \u201ca group missile strike with long-range precision-guided airborne and seaborne weapons on facilities of Ukraine\u2019s defence industry ... all designated facilities were struck.\u201d \n\nA Russian-installed official in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region, Vladimir Rogov, said the attack hit ammunition and fuel depots in Pavlohrad, which he said would impede Ukraine's planned counteroffensive. \n\nThe attacks also damaged Ukraine's power network infrastructure, which will take several days to repair, according to Ukraine's energy minister, Herman Haluschenko. He said that nearly 20,000 people in the city of Kherson and the wider region had been left without power, along with others in the Dnipropetrovsk region. \n\nMoscow has frequently launched long-range missile attacks during the 14-month war, often indiscriminately hitting civilian areas. \n\nAnticipating the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian forces are especially focused now on destroying logistical routes and centres of Ukraine's armed forces, southern regional military spokeswoman Natalia Humeniuk told Ukrainian TV. \n\nBolstering Ukraine's capabilities for the counteroffensive are recent deliveries of American-made Patriot missiles that improve anti-missile defences. It was not clear whether any of them were employed in trying to stop Monday morning's attack. In addition, Ukraine has been building up its mechanized brigades with armour supplied by its Western allies, who have also been training Ukrainian troops and sending ammunition. \n\nUkraine's Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, has come under periodic attack as Zelenskyy has vowed to reclaim it and other occupied territory. \n\nOn Monday, Russian officials reported knocking down at least two Ukrainian drones in Crimea, but they didn't make clear whether any had hit their targets. The peninsula is home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet. On Saturday, two Ukrainian drones hit a Russian oil depot in Crimea. \n\nUkraine doesn't acknowledge responsibility for such attacks. \n\nIn what has become a grinding war of attrition, the fiercest battles have been in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia is struggling to encircle the city of Bakhmut in the face of dogged Ukrainian defence. \n\nTroops from Russia's Wagner mercenary group and other forces are fighting Ukrainian troops house-to-house to try to gain control of what has become known as the \u201croad of life\u201d - the last remaining road west still in Ukrainian hands, critical for supplies and fresh troops. \n\nCol. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the head of Ukrainian ground forces, said Russia continued to exert \u201cmaximum effort\u201d to take the city but so far had failed. \n\n\u201cIn some parts of the city, the enemy was counterattacked by our units and left some positions,\" he said. \n\nIn Russia's Bryansk region, which borders northern Ukraine, an explosive device derailed a freight train, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz said. \n\nThere were no immediate indications of who set off the explosive, but Bryansk has suffered sporadic cross-border shelling during the war. In March, two people were reported killed in what Bryansk officials said was an incursion by Ukrainian saboteurs. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Air raid sirens began blaring across the capital at about 3:45am, followed by explosions as Ukrainian defense systems intercepted missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen cruise missiles were fired from the Murmansk and Caspian regions, and 15 of them were intercepted, Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv\u2019s city administration head Serhii Popko said all missiles fired at the city were shot down, as well as some drones. He didn\u2019t provide further details.<\/p>\n<p>The attack follows Friday's launch of more than 20 cruise missiles and two explosive drones at Ukraine, the first to target Kyiv in nearly two months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.658203125\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//57//33//34//808x532_cmsv2_6e3d897c-0e58-5dbc-b511-aaa94b72235e-7573334.jpg/" alt=\"Libkos\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/384x253_cmsv2_6e3d897c-0e58-5dbc-b511-aaa94b72235e-7573334.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/640x421_cmsv2_6e3d897c-0e58-5dbc-b511-aaa94b72235e-7573334.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/750x494_cmsv2_6e3d897c-0e58-5dbc-b511-aaa94b72235e-7573334.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/828x545_cmsv2_6e3d897c-0e58-5dbc-b511-aaa94b72235e-7573334.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/1080x711_cmsv2_6e3d897c-0e58-5dbc-b511-aaa94b72235e-7573334.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/1200x790_cmsv2_6e3d897c-0e58-5dbc-b511-aaa94b72235e-7573334.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/1920x1264_cmsv2_6e3d897c-0e58-5dbc-b511-aaa94b72235e-7573334.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Ukrainian soldier fires an RPG during his training at the frontline positions near Vuhledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, May 1, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Libkos\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In that attack, Russian missiles hit an apartment building in Uman, a city about 215 kilometres south of Kyiv, killing 21 people, including three children.<\/p>\n<p>In Monday's attack, missiles hit Pavlohrad, in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, killing two people and wounding 40, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p>Seven missiles were shot at the city and \u201csome were intercepted\u201d but others struck an industrial facility, sparking a fire, authorities said. Damage was reported to 24 apartment buildings, 89 homes, six schools and five shops, according to regional authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Missiles also hit three other areas in the Dnipropetrovsk region, damaging residential buildings and a school, said Serhii Lysak, the region\u2019s top official.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7571346,7570372,7572148\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//30//the-main-battles-are-coming-soon-ukraines-president-says/">/u201cThe main battles are coming soon,\" Ukraine's president says<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//01//fresh-wave-of-russian-missile-strikes-hit-ukrainian-arms-depot/">Fresh wave of Russian missile strikes reportedly hit Ukrainian arms depot<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//01//watch-ukraine-mourns-the-deaths-of-children-killed-in-russian-strike/">WATCH: Ukraine mourns the deaths of children killed in Russian strike <\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Monday that Russia conducted \u201ca group missile strike with long-range precision-guided airborne and seaborne weapons on facilities of Ukraine\u2019s defence industry ... all designated facilities were struck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Russian-installed official in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region, Vladimir Rogov, said the attack hit ammunition and fuel depots in Pavlohrad, which he said would impede Ukraine's planned counteroffensive.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks also damaged Ukraine's power network infrastructure, which will take several days to repair, according to Ukraine's energy minister, Herman Haluschenko. He said that nearly 20,000 people in the city of Kherson and the wider region had been left without power, along with others in the Dnipropetrovsk region.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has frequently launched long-range missile attacks during the 14-month war, often indiscriminately hitting civilian areas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//57//33//34//808x539_cmsv2_4110bdfc-03f0-5986-bf0d-b5110029397e-7573334.jpg/" alt=\"Libkos\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/384x256_cmsv2_4110bdfc-03f0-5986-bf0d-b5110029397e-7573334.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/640x427_cmsv2_4110bdfc-03f0-5986-bf0d-b5110029397e-7573334.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/750x500_cmsv2_4110bdfc-03f0-5986-bf0d-b5110029397e-7573334.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/828x552_cmsv2_4110bdfc-03f0-5986-bf0d-b5110029397e-7573334.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/1080x720_cmsv2_4110bdfc-03f0-5986-bf0d-b5110029397e-7573334.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/1200x800_cmsv2_4110bdfc-03f0-5986-bf0d-b5110029397e-7573334.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/1920x1281_cmsv2_4110bdfc-03f0-5986-bf0d-b5110029397e-7573334.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ukrainian soldiers prepare their ammunition at the frontline positions near Vuhledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, May 1, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Libkos\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Anticipating the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian forces are especially focused now on destroying logistical routes and centres of Ukraine's armed forces, southern regional military spokeswoman Natalia Humeniuk told Ukrainian TV.<\/p>\n<p>Bolstering Ukraine's capabilities for the counteroffensive are recent deliveries of American-made Patriot missiles that improve anti-missile defences. It was not clear whether any of them were employed in trying to stop Monday morning's attack. In addition, Ukraine has been building up its mechanized brigades with armour supplied by its Western allies, who have also been training Ukrainian troops and sending ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, has come under periodic attack as Zelenskyy has vowed to reclaim it and other occupied territory.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Russian officials reported knocking down at least two Ukrainian drones in Crimea, but they didn't make clear whether any had hit their targets. The peninsula is home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet. On Saturday, two Ukrainian drones hit a Russian oil depot in Crimea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1653129624451162123\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ukraine doesn't acknowledge responsibility for such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In what has become a grinding war of attrition, the fiercest battles have been in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia is struggling to encircle the city of Bakhmut in the face of dogged Ukrainian defence.<\/p>\n<p>Troops from Russia's Wagner mercenary group and other forces are fighting Ukrainian troops house-to-house to try to gain control of what has become known as the \u201croad of life\u201d - the last remaining road west still in Ukrainian hands, critical for supplies and fresh troops.<\/p>\n<p>Col. 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He then scolded the activist, who was shouting even as the presenter tried to continue the program despite the disruption. \n\n\u201cNo, no, sir, you\u2019re not going to glue yourself to the set. I don\u2019t believe it!\u201d said Seydoux, wagging a finger at the activist as the crowd jeered and booed. \u201cOh-la-la! It\u2019s a shame. It\u2019s a shame, sir, you\u2019re taking a democratic program hostage. ... I refuse to co-host this show with you. \n\nYou have strictly nothing to say, and I will now ask you to be evacuated,\u201d he added, before sighing: \u201cWhat an afternoon!\u201d \n\nA technician in a headset inspected the scene, but could not immediately figure out how to dislodge the activist, who proceeded to chat into the microphone of Switzerland\u2019s public network, RTS. \n\nShortly afterwards, technicians equipped with solvent arrived to remove the man and escort him away \u2014 though he struggled a bit and sat down to slow the eviction. 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Spanish lawyers demanded the right to take days off. \n\nWhile May Day is marked around the world on May 1 as a celebration of labour rights, this year's rallies tapped into broader frustrations. Climate activists spray painted a Louis Vuitton museum in Paris, and protesters in Germany demonstrated against violence targeting women and LGBTQ+ people. \n\nRussia's war in Ukraine overshadowed scaled-back events in Moscow, where Communist-led May Day celebrations were once massive affairs. \n\nFrench pension protests \n\nAcross France, thousands marched in what unions hope are the country's biggest May Day demonstrations in years, mobilised against President Emmanuel Macron's recent move to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. 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Activists opposed to the 2024 Paris Olympics and their impact on society and the environment also demonstrated. \n\nIn Turkey, police prevented a group of demonstrators from reaching Istanbul's main square, Taksim, and detained around a dozen protesters, the independent television station Sozcu reported. Journalists trying to film demonstrators being forcibly moved into police vans were also pushed back or detained. \n\nThe square has symbolic importance for Turkey's trade unions after unknown gunmen opened fire on people celebrating May Day at Taksim in 1977, causing a stampede that killed dozens. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government has declared Taksim off-limits to demonstrations, though small groups were allowed to enter Taksim to lay wreaths at a monument there. \n\nFour-day week proposals for Spain \n\nMore than 70 marches were held across Spain, led by the country's powerful unions, who warned of \"social conflict\" if low salaries compared to the EU average don't rise in line with inflation. They also praised incentives to move Spain to a four-day working week. \n\nBlue-collar workers led the protests, but white-collar professionals were also making demands in a country that still bears the scars of previous recessions. \n\nThe Illustrious College of Lawyers of Madrid urged reforms of historic laws that require them to be on call 365 days of the year, regardless of the death of family members or medical emergencies. In the last few years, lawyers have tweeted images of themselves working from hospital beds on IV drips to illustrate the problem. \n\nTake back the night \n\nProtests in Germany kicked off with a \"Take Back the Night\" rally organised by feminist and queer groups on the eve of May Day to protest against violence directed at women and LGBTQ+ people. Several thousand people took part in the march, which was largely peaceful despite occasional clashes between participants and police. Numerous further rallies by labour unions and leftist groups are planned in Germany on Monday. \n\nItaly's far-right premier, Giorgia Meloni, made a point of working on Monday \u2014 as her Cabinet passed measures on Labor Day that it contends demonstrates concern for workers. But opposition lawmakers and union leaders said the measures do nothing to increase salaries or to combat the widespread practice of hiring workers on temporary contracts. Many young people say they can't contemplate starting families or even move out of their parents' homes because they can only get temporary contracts. \n\nElsewhere, some communities held May Day festivals that harkened back to pagan ceremonies celebrating spring. \n\nIn war-ravaged Ukraine, May Day is associated with Soviet-era celebrations when the country was ruled from Moscow \u2014 an era that many want forgotten. \n\n\"It is good that we don't celebrate this holiday like it was done during the Bolshevik times. It was something truly awful,\" said Anatolii Borsiuk, a 77-year-old in Kyiv. \n\nAlla Liapkina described the flowers and balloons of Soviet May Day gatherings but said it's time to move on. \n\n\"We live in a new era, and we need to develop in this direction,'' she said. ''We don't need to go back to such a past.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>People squeezed by inflation and demanding economic justice took to the streets across Europe to mark May Day on Monday, in a widespread outpouring of worker discontent not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic sent the world into lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>French police charged at radical protesters smashing bank windows as unions pushed the president to scrap a higher retirement age. Spanish lawyers demanded the right to take days off.<\/p>\n<p>While May Day is marked around the world on May 1 as a celebration of labour rights, this year's rallies tapped into broader frustrations. Climate activists spray painted a Louis Vuitton museum in Paris, and protesters in Germany demonstrated against violence targeting women and LGBTQ+ people.<\/p>\n<p>Russia's war in Ukraine overshadowed scaled-back events in Moscow, where Communist-led May Day celebrations were once massive affairs.<\/p>\n<h2>French pension protests<\/h2><p>Across France, thousands marched in what unions hope are the country's biggest May Day demonstrations in years, mobilised against President Emmanuel Macron's recent move to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Organisers see the pension reform as a threat to hard-fought worker rights, while Macron argues it's economically necessary as the population ages.<\/p>\n<p>While marchers were largely peaceful, groups of extremist protesters shattered windows of stores and banks in Paris, drawing tear gas from rows of riot police. One was filmed dismantling a surveillance camera, and French police deployed drones exceptionally to film unrest, a move that has raised concerns among privacy defenders and activist groups. Paris police detained 30 people, and clashes were reported in Lyon and Nantes.<\/p>\n<h2>Activists opposed to the 2024 Paris Olympics<\/h2><p>French union members were joined by labour activists from other countries, environmental activists and other groups fighting for economic justice, or just expressing anger at Macron and what is seen as his out-of-touch, pro-business leadership. Activists opposed to the 2024 Paris Olympics and their impact on society and the environment also demonstrated.<\/p>\n<p>In Turkey, police prevented a group of demonstrators from reaching Istanbul's main square, Taksim, and detained around a dozen protesters, the independent television station Sozcu reported. Journalists trying to film demonstrators being forcibly moved into police vans were also pushed back or detained.<\/p>\n<p>The square has symbolic importance for Turkey's trade unions after unknown gunmen opened fire on people celebrating May Day at Taksim in 1977, causing a stampede that killed dozens. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government has declared Taksim off-limits to demonstrations, though small groups were allowed to enter Taksim to lay wreaths at a monument there.<\/p>\n<h2>Four-day week proposals for Spain<\/h2><p>More than 70 marches were held across Spain, led by the country's powerful unions, who warned of \"social conflict\" if low salaries compared to the EU average don't rise in line with inflation. They also praised incentives to move Spain to a four-day working week.<\/p>\n<p>Blue-collar workers led the protests, but white-collar professionals were also making demands in a country that still bears the scars of previous recessions.<\/p>\n<p>The Illustrious College of Lawyers of Madrid urged reforms of historic laws that require them to be on call 365 days of the year, regardless of the death of family members or medical emergencies. In the last few years, lawyers have tweeted images of themselves working from hospital beds on IV drips to illustrate the problem.<\/p>\n<h2>Take back the night<\/h2><p>Protests in Germany kicked off with a \"Take Back the Night\" rally organised by feminist and queer groups on the eve of May Day to protest against violence directed at women and LGBTQ+ people. Several thousand people took part in the march, which was largely peaceful despite occasional clashes between participants and police. 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industry in line and paying its way in full, Vicky Cann writes.","keySentence":"","url":"its-time-to-tackle-basfs-legacy-of-pollution-and-end-its-burden-shifting","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/01\/its-time-to-tackle-basfs-legacy-of-pollution-and-end-its-burden-shifting","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Chemicals giant BASF has a time-honoured tradition of threatening economic catastrophe every time the industry is faced with regulatory measures to rein in its toxic trade.\u00a0 \n\nBut the real catastrophe is how the company imposes a huge burden \u2014 materially, morally, and financially\u00a0\u2014 across the continent, from its toxic \u201cforever chemicals\u201d and hazardous pesticides to its contribution to climate change. \n\nBASF shareholders met on Thursday in Mannheim and awarded themselves billions\u00a0 in dividend payments. It is now long overdue for EU politicians to see beyond BASF\u00a0 rhetoric and to get to grips with the toxics and climate crises.\u00a0 \n\nAs the world\u2019s biggest producer of chemicals, BASF has a big stake in the outcome of proposed reforms of EU chemicals regulation, part of the flagship European Green Deal.\u00a0 \n\n\nHowever, a recent profile by Corporate Europe Observatory exposes BASF rhetoric about the so-called \u201cburden\u201d from the new regulations that it would face. \n\nLegacy of pollution plagues the industrial giant \n\nBASF says the EU\u2019s proposed chemicals regulatory reform \u201cputs a big question mark over the future of chemicals in Europe\u201d and is a factor in its \u201ccost-cutting\u201d in Europe.\u00a0 \n\nAnd politicians in Berlin and Brussels have traditionally paid heed to the loaded messaging from BASF and other chemicals industry players. \n\nBut what about the burden on society of their toxic products and their legacy of pollution? \n\nFor example, BASF\u2019s flagship Ludwigshafen site is known to produce PFAS, and the company has 11 such chemicals in its portfolio. PFAS are also called \u201cforever chemicals\u201d due to their persistence in the environment. \n\nThe total health-related costs for exposure to all PFAS across Europe have been estimated at \u20ac52-84 billion per year, with impacts likely to include liver damage, decreased fertility, and cancer.\u00a0 \n\nA \u201cplausible\u201d figure for European environmental clean-up costs is \u20ac10-20bn. And that's in addition to the unquantifiable damage and suffering caused. \n\nIt's time for Brussels to get to grips with the crises \n\nWhile the public burden of these huge health and environmental costs of PFAS does not explicitly show up on anyone\u2019s balance sheet, the costs are real.\u00a0 \n\nAnd they are even higher when factoring in the costs of producing and using other hazardous chemicals and pesticides.\u00a0 \n\nThus, it is long overdue for the EU to overhaul regulation to prevent these public burdens from building up further. \n\nYet, BASF is reportedly among several German chemical and plastic lobbies pushing to undermine the EU-level plan to ban whole classes of PFAS chemicals.\u00a0 \n\nAnd our report shows how a coalition of industry and centre-right politicians have succeeded in postponing the much-needed reform of the EU\u2019s REACH chemicals regulation. \n\nOne of BASF sites alone uses more gas than Denmark \n\nWe have been here before. When the EU worked on the original REACH regulation a couple of decades ago, the chemicals industry scaremongered that the proposal would \u201cde-industrialise Europe\u201d. \n\nThey were on the wrong side of history then, and little has changed since. \n\nBASF\u2019s huge burden on Europe is also evident in the company\u2019s enormous climate footprint. BASF\u2019s Ludwigshafen site alone consumes more natural gas than the whole of Denmark. \n\nBASF remains wedded to fossil gas, including via hydrogen and fracked gas from the US, and it continues to actively lobby to protect its gas interests. Its approach locks itself into decades of future fossil fuel use. \n\nThat leaves the public once again bearing the burden of BASF\u2019s profit-driven consumption of fossil fuels in the form of its contribution to the climate crisis.\u00a0 \n\nThe economic losses alone in Europe from the climate crisis have been calculated at around \u20ac145bn for the past decade. \n\nWe pay for BASF\u2019s burden-shifting and we're running out of time to fix that \n\nWhile BASF enjoyed sales of over \u20ac80bn in 2022, other costs are being passed onto its workers and EU citizens.\u00a0 \n\nThis February, BASF unveiled its plans to axe 2600 jobs as part of a cost-cutting exercise, while at this week\u2019s AGM, it handed out another generous \u20ac3 billion dividend to shareholders. \n\nLast year it paid out a similar dividend, no doubt pleasing BASF\u2019s wealthy institutional investors such as BlackRock, notorious for its\u00a0investments in fossil fuels and deforestation, and Goldman Sachs. \n\nAnd while ChemSec has criticised BASF for not transitioning to safer chemicals with enough speed or commitment, BASF and the wider chemicals industry demand that the public purse picks up the burden for funding research into developing safer chemicals products. \n\nSeen in the context of BASF\u2019s aggressive tax planning strategies, which led to them avoiding a tax contribution worth \u20ac923 million in the 2010-14 period, BASF\u2019s burden-shifting is truly outrageous. \n\nBASF and its industry allies want delays and loopholes to upcoming regulations in order to help them shift the economic, social, and environmental burden elsewhere so as to protect their revenues. \n\nBut regulation is failing to keep up with the scale of the toxics and climate crises.\u00a0 \n\n\nEU and member state decision-makers need to get real about the burden that corporations like BASF place on society in Europe and around the world and agree on robust new rules to get the industry in line and paying its way in full. \n\nVicky Cann is a researcher with Corporate Europe Observatory,\u00a0a non-profit research and campaign group aiming to expose any effects of corporate lobbying on EU policymaking. \n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Chemicals giant BASF has a time-honoured tradition of threatening economic catastrophe every time the industry is faced with regulatory measures to rein in its toxic trade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the real catastrophe is how the company imposes a huge burden \u2014 materially, morally, and financially\u00a0\u2014 across the continent, from its toxic \u201cforever chemicals\u201d and hazardous pesticides to its contribution to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>BASF shareholders met on Thursday in Mannheim and awarded themselves billions\u00a0in dividend payments. It is now long overdue for EU politicians to see beyond BASF\u00a0rhetoric and to get to grips with the toxics and climate crises.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"5729462,6750112\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//06//04//european-green-deal-accused-of-green-colonialism-in-new-report/">European Green Deal accused of \u2018green colonialism\u2019 in new report<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//06//03//with-the-war-raging-the-european-green-deal-finds-itself-at-a-crossroads-view/">With the war raging, the European Green Deal finds itself at a crossroads | View<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As the world\u2019s biggest producer of chemicals, BASF has a big stake in the outcome of proposed reforms of EU chemicals regulation, part of the flagship European Green Deal.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////corporateeurope.org//en//chemical-romance-politicians-basf/">a recent profile<\/strong><\/a> by Corporate Europe Observatory exposes BASF rhetoric about the so-called \u201cburden\u201d from the new regulations that it would face.<\/p>\n<h2>Legacy of pollution plagues the industrial giant<\/h2><p>BASF says the EU\u2019s proposed chemicals regulatory reform \u201cputs a big question mark over the future of chemicals in Europe\u201d and is a factor in its \u201ccost-cutting\u201d in Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And politicians in Berlin and Brussels have traditionally paid heed to the loaded messaging from BASF and other chemicals industry players.<\/p>\n<p>But what about the burden on society of their toxic products and their legacy of pollution?<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">The total health-related costs for exposure to all PFAS across Europe have been estimated at \u20ac52-84 billion per year, with impacts likely to include liver damage, decreased fertility, and cancer.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6513671875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//56//75//92//808x525_cmsv2_df9a57d5-09f8-5109-b270-2bde326ad2a2-7567592.jpg/" alt=\"Ulli Ziegenfuss\/AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/384x250_cmsv2_df9a57d5-09f8-5109-b270-2bde326ad2a2-7567592.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/640x417_cmsv2_df9a57d5-09f8-5109-b270-2bde326ad2a2-7567592.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/750x489_cmsv2_df9a57d5-09f8-5109-b270-2bde326ad2a2-7567592.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/828x539_cmsv2_df9a57d5-09f8-5109-b270-2bde326ad2a2-7567592.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1080x703_cmsv2_df9a57d5-09f8-5109-b270-2bde326ad2a2-7567592.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1200x782_cmsv2_df9a57d5-09f8-5109-b270-2bde326ad2a2-7567592.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1920x1251_cmsv2_df9a57d5-09f8-5109-b270-2bde326ad2a2-7567592.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A huge cloud of dark smoke seen at the BASF chemical plant site in Ludwigshafen after an explosion on 17 October 2016<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ulli Ziegenfuss\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For example, BASF\u2019s flagship Ludwigshafen site is known to produce PFAS, and the company has 11 such chemicals in its portfolio. PFAS are also called \u201cforever chemicals\u201d due to their persistence in the environment.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6935454,7547382\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//04//20//diet-exercise-and-forever-chemicals-new-research-shows-links-between-toxic-pfas-and-weight/">Diet, exercise - and forever chemicals? New research shows links between toxic PFAS and weight gain<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//08//19//forever-chemicals-what-are-pfas-and-can-we-solve-this-persistent-pollution-problem/">/u2018Forever chemicals\u2019: What are PFAS and can we solve this persistent pollution problem?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The total health-related costs for exposure to all PFAS across Europe have been estimated at \u20ac52-84 billion per year, with impacts likely to include liver damage, decreased fertility, and cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cplausible\u201d figure for European environmental clean-up costs is \u20ac10-20bn. And that's in addition to the unquantifiable damage and suffering caused.<\/p>\n<h2>It's time for Brussels to get to grips with the crises<\/h2><p>While the public burden of these huge health and environmental costs of PFAS does not explicitly show up on anyone\u2019s balance sheet, the costs are real.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And they are even higher when factoring in the costs of producing and using other hazardous chemicals and pesticides.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it is long overdue for the EU to overhaul regulation to prevent these public burdens from building up further.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">BASF is reportedly among several German chemical and plastic lobbies pushing to undermine the EU-level plan to ban whole classes of PFAS chemicals.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.65625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//56//75//92//808x532_cmsv2_95113993-95da-5d31-9193-bd08aa54aec3-7567592.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\/Michael Sohn\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/384x252_cmsv2_95113993-95da-5d31-9193-bd08aa54aec3-7567592.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/640x420_cmsv2_95113993-95da-5d31-9193-bd08aa54aec3-7567592.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/750x492_cmsv2_95113993-95da-5d31-9193-bd08aa54aec3-7567592.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/828x543_cmsv2_95113993-95da-5d31-9193-bd08aa54aec3-7567592.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1080x709_cmsv2_95113993-95da-5d31-9193-bd08aa54aec3-7567592.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1200x788_cmsv2_95113993-95da-5d31-9193-bd08aa54aec3-7567592.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1920x1260_cmsv2_95113993-95da-5d31-9193-bd08aa54aec3-7567592.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the CEO of BASF Martin Brudermueller after a visit of the BASF company in Schwarzheide south of Berlin, November 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Michael Sohn<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yet, BASF is reportedly among several German chemical and plastic lobbies pushing to undermine the EU-level plan to ban whole classes of PFAS chemicals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And our report shows how a coalition of industry and centre-right politicians have succeeded in postponing the much-needed reform of the EU\u2019s REACH chemicals regulation.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7425386,7224752\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//24//exposed-17000-european-sites-contaminated-by-forever-chemicals-where-are-the-worst-spots/">Exposed: 17,000 European sites contaminated by forever chemicals. Where are the worst spots?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//12//01//investors-worth-8-trillion-urge-companies-to-phase-out-toxic-forever-chemicals-found-every/">From rainwater to breast milk, forever chemicals are everywhere. Investors worth $8tn are fed up<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>One of BASF sites alone uses more gas than Denmark<\/h2><p>We have been here before. When the EU worked on the original REACH regulation a couple of decades ago, the chemicals industry scaremongered that the proposal would \u201cde-industrialise Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They were on the wrong side of history then, and little has changed since.<\/p>\n<p>BASF\u2019s huge burden on Europe is also evident in the company\u2019s enormous climate footprint. BASF\u2019s Ludwigshafen site alone consumes more natural gas than the whole of Denmark.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">BASF remains wedded to fossil gas, including via hydrogen and fracked gas from the US, and it continues to actively lobby to protect its gas interests.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.796875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//56//75//92//808x646_cmsv2_4ac70e01-fb04-5dbf-9ade-aee188fb9472-7567592.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\/Michael Probst\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/384x306_cmsv2_4ac70e01-fb04-5dbf-9ade-aee188fb9472-7567592.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/640x510_cmsv2_4ac70e01-fb04-5dbf-9ade-aee188fb9472-7567592.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/750x598_cmsv2_4ac70e01-fb04-5dbf-9ade-aee188fb9472-7567592.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/828x660_cmsv2_4ac70e01-fb04-5dbf-9ade-aee188fb9472-7567592.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1080x861_cmsv2_4ac70e01-fb04-5dbf-9ade-aee188fb9472-7567592.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1200x956_cmsv2_4ac70e01-fb04-5dbf-9ade-aee188fb9472-7567592.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1920x1530_cmsv2_4ac70e01-fb04-5dbf-9ade-aee188fb9472-7567592.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A flame emits from a chimney at the BASF chemical company in Ludwigshafen, December 2018<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Michael Probst<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>BASF remains wedded to fossil gas, including via hydrogen and fracked gas from the US, and it continues to actively lobby to protect its gas interests. Its approach locks itself into decades of future fossil fuel use.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves the public once again bearing the burden of BASF\u2019s profit-driven consumption of fossil fuels in the form of its contribution to the climate crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The economic losses alone in Europe from the climate crisis have been calculated at around \u20ac145bn for the past decade.<\/p>\n<h2>We pay for BASF\u2019s burden-shifting and we're running out of time to fix that<\/h2><p>While BASF enjoyed sales of over \u20ac80bn in 2022, other costs are being passed onto its workers and EU citizens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This February, BASF unveiled its plans to axe 2600 jobs as part of a cost-cutting exercise, while at this week\u2019s AGM, it handed out another generous \u20ac3 billion dividend to shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>Last year it paid out a similar dividend, no doubt pleasing BASF\u2019s wealthy institutional investors such as BlackRock, notorious for its\u00a0investments in fossil fuels and deforestation, and Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7184738,2789322\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//11//10//blackrock-vanguard-and-deutsche-bank-among-firms-still-financing-deforestation-new-report-/">BlackRock, Vanguard and Deutsche Bank among firms still financing deforestation, new report shows<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2016//10//17//basf-says-german-chemical-plant-blast-killed-two-workers-two-more-missing/">BASF says German chemical plant blast killed two workers, two more missing<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And while ChemSec has criticised BASF for not transitioning to safer chemicals with enough speed or commitment, BASF and the wider chemicals industry demand that the public purse picks up the burden for funding research into developing safer chemicals products.<\/p>\n<p>Seen in the context of BASF\u2019s aggressive tax planning strategies, which led to them avoiding a tax contribution worth \u20ac923 million in the 2010-14 period, BASF\u2019s burden-shifting is truly outrageous.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">EU and member state decision-makers need to ... agree on robust new rules to get the industry in line and paying its way in full.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6787109375\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//56//75//92//808x550_cmsv2_ce64fa0a-942c-5050-8b21-7054a248a161-7567592.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\/Michael Probst\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/384x261_cmsv2_ce64fa0a-942c-5050-8b21-7054a248a161-7567592.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/640x434_cmsv2_ce64fa0a-942c-5050-8b21-7054a248a161-7567592.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/750x509_cmsv2_ce64fa0a-942c-5050-8b21-7054a248a161-7567592.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/828x562_cmsv2_ce64fa0a-942c-5050-8b21-7054a248a161-7567592.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1080x733_cmsv2_ce64fa0a-942c-5050-8b21-7054a248a161-7567592.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1200x814_cmsv2_ce64fa0a-942c-5050-8b21-7054a248a161-7567592.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/75\/92\/1920x1303_cmsv2_ce64fa0a-942c-5050-8b21-7054a248a161-7567592.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Pollution rises from the BASF chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, November 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Michael Probst<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>BASF and its industry allies want delays and loopholes to upcoming regulations in order to help them shift the economic, social, and environmental burden elsewhere so as to protect their revenues.<\/p>\n<p>But regulation is failing to keep up with the scale of the toxics and climate crises.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>EU and member state decision-makers need to get real about the burden that corporations like BASF place on society in Europe and around the world and agree on robust new rules to get the industry in line and paying its way in full.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vicky Cann is a researcher with Corporate Europe Observatory,\u00a0a non-profit research and campaign group aiming to expose any effects of corporate lobbying on EU policymaking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At Euronews, we believe all views matter. 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But a planned pledge of allegiance has struck a false note.","keySentence":"","url":"designed-as-a-modern-touch-coronation-pledge-of-allegiance-slammed-as-tone-deaf","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2023\/05\/01\/designed-as-a-modern-touch-coronation-pledge-of-allegiance-slammed-as-tone-deaf","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"With less than a week to go before King Charles III\u2019s coronation ceremony , the Internet is abuzz with news of last-minute details - not all of them welcome. \n\nThe Royal guest list for the Coronation Concert has gotten longer - with English actor Dame Joan Collins, Welsh musician Sir Tom Jones, British adventurer Bear Grylls and (perplexingly) American actor Tom Cruise added to the bill. \n\nThey will participate in pre-recorded sketches celebrating the crowning of the King and the Queen Consort on Saturday 6 May. \n\nThe ceremony will also feature many different faiths and languages - a sign of the \u201cdiversity of our contemporary society,\u201d according to Archbishop Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the Church of England. \n\nThe big names and gestures are indicative of Charles\u2019 attempts to keep the 1,000-year-old monarchy relevant in a Britain that looks and thinks very differently from the one his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, inherited 70 years ago. \n\nBringing the Royal institution into the 21st century is even more important as public support for the Royal Family has hit an all-time low . \n\nBut one of the actions meant to \u201cmodernise\u201d the monarchy has rung false with many of its detractors - and even some of its supporters. \n\nThe Palace announced that millions of people in the UK and the Commonwealth will be invited to pledge their allegiance to their new king out loud on Saturday, with an oath described as a \u201cmodern break from tradition.\u201d \n\nHowever, critics have slammed the move as \u201cfeudal\u201d and more fitting of a Game of Thrones episode. \n\n\u201cHomage of the people\u201d or \u201cHuge miscalculation\u201d? \n\nThose watching the crowning have been asked to say: \"I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God.\" \n\nIt\u2019s the first time in history that commoners have been asked to participate in the pledge, which has traditionally been reserved for the monarch\u2019s peers. Officially, it\u2019s meant to represent what the monarchy is calling an \u201chomage of the people,\u201d a symbol of Charles\u2019 \u201cdown-to-earth\u201d style of ruling. \n\nBut anti-monarchist organisation Republic \u2013 which is behind the #NotMyKing movement \u2013 has called it \"offensive, tone deaf and a gesture that holds the people in contempt.\" \n\n\u201cThis bizarre idea is likely to prove a huge miscalculation, one born of fear that the monarchy is rapidly losing support,\u201d head of Republic Graham Smith wrote in a statement . \u201cThey are doubling down on the most archaic aspects of the coronation while trying to include everyone else in the most crass manner.\u201d \n\nEven supporters of the monarchy have called into question the effectiveness of the oath. British journalist Martin Townsend, a self-described monarchist, called it fodder for anti-monarchists. \n\n\u201cTo me this just plays into a lot of the critics around the coronation, a lot of anti-monarchists who will say \u2018Oh the monarchy is losing popularity,\u2019\u201d Townsend said in an interview with right-leaning news channel GB News. \u201cThere is a little bit of insecurity about it. And equally, I think it also plays into that narrative, which is of a slightly vain king.\u201d \n\nAllegiance amid hardship: A steep request? \n\nOn Twitter, many Britons expressed frustration at what was seen as a flippant request amid much more pressing matters - like the worsening cost of living crisis in the country. \n\nSome users criticised the fact that the coronation \u2013 which is estimated to cost upwards of \u00a3100 million (\u20ac113 million) \u2013 is being bankrolled by British taxpayers, pointing to King Charles\u2019 own astronomical net worth of \u00a3600 million (\u20ac683 million) in contrast. \n\nCharles\u2019 pledge of allegiance request has also proven to be prime material for a flood of jokes, even inspiring a creative new chant from fans of the Celtic football club. \n\nOver the weekend at a Scottish Cup match, an entire stadium echoed with chants for the new King to shove his coronation where the sun don\u2019t shine. \n\nSo as the monarchy struggles to find its voice at the start of the new King Charles III\u2019s reign, it\u2019s safe to say not everyone is on board with its new messaging. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>With less than a week to go before King Charles III\u2019s <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//27//the-uk-is-counting-down-to-the-coronation-of-king-charles-iii/">coronation ceremony<\/strong><\/a>, the Internet is abuzz with news of last-minute details - not all of them welcome.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal guest list for the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//04//17//coronation-concert-who-is-on-the-line-up-for-windsor-castle-event/">Coronation Concert<\/strong><\/a> has gotten longer - with English actor Dame Joan Collins, Welsh musician Sir Tom Jones, British adventurer Bear Grylls and (perplexingly) American actor Tom Cruise added to the bill.<\/p>\n<p>They will participate in pre-recorded sketches celebrating the crowning of the King and the Queen Consort on Saturday 6 May.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will also feature many different faiths and languages - a sign of the \u201cdiversity of our contemporary society,\u201d according to Archbishop Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>The big names and gestures are indicative of Charles\u2019 attempts to keep the 1,000-year-old monarchy relevant in a Britain that looks and thinks very differently from the one his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, inherited 70 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing the Royal institution into the 21st century is even more important as public support for the Royal Family has <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//04//28//pre-coronation-poll-shows-british-support-for-the-monarchy-is-at-an-all-time-low/">hit an all-time low<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7511882,7407050\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//04//05//its-official-king-charles-iiis-wife-camilla-will-be-known-as-queen/">From homewrecker to Her Majesty: Queen Camilla's journey into the royal spotlight<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//02//16//queen-consort-camilla-rejects-controversial-koh-i-noor-diamond-for-crown/">Queen Consort Camilla rejects controversial Koh-i-Noor diamond for crown<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>But one of the actions meant to \u201cmodernise\u201d the monarchy has rung false with many of its detractors - and even some of its supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The Palace announced that millions of people in the UK and the Commonwealth will be invited to pledge their allegiance to their new king out loud on Saturday, with an oath described as a \u201cmodern break from tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1652425259159625728\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>However, critics have slammed the move as \u201cfeudal\u201d and more fitting of a Game of Thrones episode.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cHomage of the people\u201d or \u201cHuge miscalculation\u201d?<\/h2><p>Those watching the crowning have been asked to say: \"I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God.\"<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time in history that commoners have been asked to participate in the pledge, which has traditionally been reserved for the monarch\u2019s peers. 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British journalist Martin Townsend, a self-described monarchist, called it fodder for anti-monarchists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me this just plays into a lot of the critics around the coronation, a lot of anti-monarchists who will say \u2018Oh the monarchy is losing popularity,\u2019\u201d Townsend said in an interview with right-leaning news channel GB News. \u201cThere is a little bit of insecurity about it. And equally, I think it also plays into that narrative, which is of a slightly vain king.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Allegiance amid hardship: A steep request?<\/h2><p>On Twitter, many Britons expressed frustration at what was seen as a flippant request amid much more pressing matters - like the worsening cost of living crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Some users criticised the fact that the coronation \u2013 which is estimated to cost upwards of \u00a3100 million (\u20ac113 million) \u2013 is being bankrolled by British taxpayers, pointing to King Charles\u2019 own astronomical net worth of \u00a3600 million (\u20ac683 million) in contrast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1652975577517768704\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n 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The latest walkout began on Sunday evening after RCN members rejected the government's latest proposals for a 5% pay rise and a one-off payment of at least \u00a31,250 (\u20ac1,425). \n\nFor the first time, the 28-hour strike will include nurses working in intensive care units and cancer wards, although the RCN said exceptions are being made in hospitals where a lack of nurses could endanger patients' health. \n\nThe strike was initially scheduled to continue on Tuesday but has been cut short after a court last week sided with the Department of Health and Social Care's argument that the length of the walkout was unlawful. \n\n\"It is for the secretary of state to come back around the table and put a better offer on the table,\" Pat Cullen , the RCN's general secretary, told Sky News on Monday. \n\n\"We need to pay nurses decently,\" she said, adding that until the government agrees a deal to increase wages adequately, \"nurses will be left with no option but to continue with the action that they are taking.\" The RCN intends to ballot its members again in mid-May. \n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay called the new walkout \"disappointing\", denouncing the \"additional pressure\" it will put on the crisis-stricken NHS. \n\nHe also described the action as \"disrespectful\" given that the government, several health sector unions and NHS officials are scheduled to meet tomorrow to discuss the proposed 5% pay rise. \n\nWith inflation running at over 10%, the pressure on salaries has led to a spate of industrial action over the past few months as workers in both the public and private sectors demand pay rises. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The UK's largest nursing union is leading another strike in England on Monday demanding pay rises in the face of inflation, in a walkout that has been cut short by a court order.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has been engaged in industrial action since December, the union's first strike since it was founded more than a century ago. The latest walkout began on Sunday evening after RCN members rejected the government's latest proposals for a 5% pay rise and a one-off payment of at least \u00a31,250 (\u20ac1,425).<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the 28-hour strike will include nurses working in intensive care units and cancer wards, although the RCN said exceptions are being made in hospitals where a lack of nurses could endanger patients' health.<\/p>\n<p>The strike was initially scheduled to continue on Tuesday but has been cut short after a court last week sided with the Department of Health and Social Care's argument that the length of the walkout was unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is for the secretary of state to come back around the table and put a better offer on the table,\" <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//patcullen9/">Pat Cullen<\/strong><\/a>, the RCN's general secretary, told Sky News on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\"We need to pay nurses decently,\" she said, adding that until the government agrees a deal to increase wages adequately, \"nurses will be left with no option but to continue with the action that they are taking.\" The RCN intends to ballot its members again in mid-May.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1652962161063280641\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Health Secretary <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//SteveBarclay/">Steve Barclay<\/strong><\/a> called the new walkout \"disappointing\", denouncing the \"additional pressure\" it will put on the crisis-stricken NHS.<\/p>\n<p>He also described the action as \"disrespectful\" given that the government, several health sector unions and NHS officials are scheduled to meet tomorrow to discuss the proposed 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countries.","keySentence":"","url":"nurses-salaries-which-countries-pay-the-most-and-the-least-in-europe","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2023\/05\/01\/nurses-salaries-which-countries-pay-the-most-and-the-least-in-europe","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Nurses in England are staging their biggest strike so far on Monday, with\u00a0the walkout affecting intensive care, emergency rooms and cancer wards\u00a0for the first time as part of a dispute over pay. \n\nHealth unions, ministers and National Health Service (NHS) bosses are due to meet on Tuesday to discuss the government's offer of a 5 per cent pay rise for 2023-24 and a lump sum of at least \u00a31,655 (\u20ac1,884)\u00a0to top up last year's salary. \n\nUnions say wages, especially in the public sector, have fallen in real terms over the past decade, and a cost-of-living crisis fuelled by double-digit inflation has left many struggling to pay their bills. \n\nAnnual gross salaries of hospital nurses in the UK increased by 10 per cent in nominal terms but fell by 6 per cent in real terms between 2010 and 2019, according to a dataset released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). \n\nThe UK is not the only country in which health workers went on strike over the past year. \n\nIn Spain, thousands of health personnel, including doctors working in emergency services, were on strike in November. Besides a considerable increase in their wages, they requested more staff and more resources. \n\nIn France, health workers joined protests in several cities last June with similar demands.\u00a0 \n\nIn Turkey, health personnel went on strike for better pay and work conditions last year. They took to the streets in several Turkish cities in July to call for more action to prevent violence after a cardiologist was shot dead by a patient\u2019s relative. \n\nAccording to the Turkish Medical Association, thousands of Turkish doctors have left their posts to work abroad over the past decade. They mostly prefer to move to Western countries, especially Germany. \n\nHealth personnel, particularly hospital nurses, have worked ceaselessly during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many European countries, they are demanding better wages, improved working conditions, and more resources. \n\nHow much are nurses paid in Europe? Which countries pay nurses the most and the least, and how much have nurses\u2019 salaries changed in the last decade? \n\nThere are significant differences in nurses\u2019 salaries across Europe. \n\nIn 2020 or the closest year with available data, official annual gross salaries in hospitals ranged from about \u20ac11,880 in Lithuania to \u20ac101,151 in Luxembourg, according to the OECD. The dataset includes 25 European countries. \n\nAnnual gross salaries of nurses (2020) \n\nBesides Luxembourg, the annual gross starting salary was above \u20ac50,000 in seven countries. Germany (\u20ac46,829) and the UK (\u20ac42,588) are not among them, according to OECD data. \n\nNurses in France and Italy earn half what they do in Belgium and Switzerland \n\nThe annual salary for a nurse in France (\u20ac35,531) or Italy (\u20ac29,222) was less than half the annual salary in Belgium (\u20ac72,508) and almost exactly half that in Switzerland (\u20ac70,965). \n\nWith the lowest salaries for nurses, Lithuania (\u20ac11,880) is followed by Turkey (\u20ac12,172) and Latvia (\u20ac13,551). \n\nSalaries and purchasing power parity \n\nThe ranking changes when we look at salaries in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP is an indicator of price level differences. In other words, it reveals how many currency units a particular quantity of goods or services costs in different countries. \n\nThe use of PPP can \u201celiminate the effect of price level differences across countries,\u201d according to Eurostat as it can be used as a currency conversion rate of sorts to convert expenditures expressed in national currencies into an artificial common currency. \n\nIn 2020, nurses\u2019 PPP-based salaries ranged from \u20ac18,700 in Lithuania to \u20ac66,800 in Luxembourg. The average among 20 EU countries was \u20ac35,300. While the gaps in PPP between countries are narrower compared to the differences in nominal salaries, they still vary significantly. \n\nBelgium (\u20ac62,300) and the Netherlands (\u20ac50,600) follow Luxembourg in terms of highest PPP-based salaries. At the bottom, Lithuania is followed by Latvia (\u20ac18,800) and Portugal (\u20ac21,400).\u00a0 \n\nAnnual gross salaries of nurses in terms of purchasing power parity (2020*) \n\nIn Finland (\u20ac31,200), the PPP-based salary of nurses was lower than the EU average. \n\nRemarkably, Turkey (\u20ac31,700) had a higher PPP-based salary for nurses than several EU countries such as Finland, Italy, and Greece. \n\nNurses are paid less than the average wage in France \n\nThe ratio of nurses\u2019 salaries to average wages in each county is also a useful indicator. The average wage in a country is based on the total wages paid and the average number of employees in the total economy. \n\nIn 2020, the ratio of a nurse\u2019s salary to the average wage varied from 0.88 in Lithuania to 1.58 in Belgium. This means that nurses in Belgium earn 1.58 times more than the average wage in the country. This ratio was 1.2 on average for 20 EU countries. \n\nIn Finland, Latvia, France, Switzerland, and Lithuania, nurses are paid less than the country\u2019s average wage. The ratio of a nurse\u2019s salary to the average wage was 0.91 in France and 0.88 in Switzerland. Ratios were higher in Spain (1.5), the Czech Republic (1.42), and Poland (1.36). \n\nRatio of nurses' salaries to average wages \n\nHow have nurses' salaries changed in the last decade? \n\nThe nominal change in annual gross salaries of nurses between 2010 and 2020 was highest in Iceland, where wages rose by 123 per cent in the last decade. Nominal change refers to values obtained when inflation is not taken into account. \n\nSome EU member states, such as Hungary (104 per cent), Estonia (94 per cent), the Czech Republic (92 per cent), and Slovakia (91 per cent), also saw dramatic increases in this period.\u00a0 \n\nNominal changes in salaries of nurses in euro between 2010 and 2020 \n\nNurses\u2019 salaries fell in three European countries between 2010 and 2020: Norway (1 per cent), Italy (4 per cent), and Greece (16 per cent). In Norway, the decrease was caused by changes in the exchange rate.\u00a0 \n\nChange in real terms: Decline in the UK and stagnation in France \n\nChange in real terms is more meaningful as it takes inflation into account. Among nine selected countries, salaries increased in seven countries in real terms between 2010 and 2020 (Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Spain, and Belgium). However, they declined by 6 per cent in the UK in this period (2010-2019) and did not change in France. \n\nChanges in salaries of nurses in real terms* between 2010 and 2020 \n\nA closer look at the UK \n\nWhen we look more closely at the UK, the figures show how the salaries of nurses declined in real terms whereas nominal salaries rose between 2010 and 2019.\u00a0 \n\nNominal salary and salary in real terms were equal in 2010 at 100 points. The nominal salary then constantly increased, reaching 110 points in 2019. However, taking inflation into account, salary in real terms gradually decreased until 2017, reaching 93 points, and increased by only one point in 2019. \n\nAnnual gross salaries of nurses in the UK: Nominal salary and salary in real terms \n\nThis figure reveals that the annual gross salaries of hospital nurses in the UK increased by 10 per cent in nominal terms but fell by 6 per cent in real terms between 2010 and 2019. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Nurses in England are staging their biggest strike so far on Monday, with\u00a0the walkout affecting intensive care, emergency rooms and cancer wards\u00a0for the first time as part of a dispute over pay.<\/p>\n<p>Health unions, ministers and National Health Service (NHS) bosses are due to meet on Tuesday to discuss the government's offer of a 5 per cent pay rise for 2023-24 and a lump sum of at least \u00a31,655 (\u20ac1,884)\u00a0to top up last year's salary.<\/p>\n<p>Unions say wages, especially in the public sector, have fallen in real terms over the past decade, and a cost-of-living crisis fuelled by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//04//19//uk-record-inflation-which-country-in-europe-has-been-worst-hit-and-how-do-they-compare/">double-digit inflation<\/strong><\/a> has left many struggling to pay their bills.<\/p>\n<p>Annual gross salaries of hospital nurses in the UK increased by 10 per cent in nominal terms but fell by 6 per cent in real terms between 2010 and 2019, according to a dataset released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).<\/p>\n<p>The UK is not the only country in which health workers went on strike over the past year.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7314930\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//03//07//industrial-action-in-france-and-the-uk-which-countries-have-the-most-strikes-in-europe/">Which countries have the most strikes in Europe and what impact does it have on the economy?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In Spain, thousands of health personnel, including doctors working in emergency services, were on strike in November. Besides a considerable increase in their wages, they requested more staff and more resources.<\/p>\n<p>In France, health workers joined protests in several cities last June with similar demands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Turkey, health personnel went on strike for better pay and work conditions last year. They took to the streets in several Turkish cities in July to call for more action to prevent violence after a cardiologist was shot dead by a patient\u2019s relative.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Turkish Medical Association, thousands of Turkish doctors have left their posts to work abroad over the past decade. They mostly prefer to move to Western countries, especially Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Health personnel, particularly hospital nurses, have worked ceaselessly during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many European countries, they are demanding better wages, improved working conditions, and more resources.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7298614\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//04//06//pension-reform-in-france-which-countries-have-the-lowest-and-highest-retirement-ages-in-eu/">Pension reform in France: Which countries have the lowest and highest retirement ages in Europe? <\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>How much are nurses paid in Europe? Which countries pay nurses the most and the least, and how much have nurses\u2019 salaries changed in the last decade?<\/p>\n<p>There are significant differences in nurses\u2019 salaries across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020 or the closest year with available data, official annual gross salaries in hospitals ranged from about \u20ac11,880 in Lithuania to \u20ac101,151 in Luxembourg, according to the OECD. The dataset includes 25 European countries.<\/p>\n<h2>Annual gross salaries of nurses (2020)<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/11994383?60023\"><script src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////public.flourish.studio//resources//embed.js/"> \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Besides Luxembourg, the annual gross starting salary was above \u20ac50,000 in seven countries. Germany (\u20ac46,829) and the UK (\u20ac42,588) are not among them, according to OECD data.<\/p>\n<h2>Nurses in France and Italy earn half what they do in Belgium and Switzerland<\/h2><p>The annual salary for a nurse in France (\u20ac35,531) or Italy (\u20ac29,222) was less than half the annual salary in Belgium (\u20ac72,508) and almost exactly half that in Switzerland (\u20ac70,965).<\/p>\n<p>With the lowest salaries for nurses, Lithuania (\u20ac11,880) is followed by Turkey (\u20ac12,172) and Latvia (\u20ac13,551).<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7283906\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//08//11//doctors-salaries-which-countries-pay-the-most-and-least-in-europe/">Doctors' wages: Which countries in Europe pay medics the highest and lowest salaries?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Salaries and purchasing power parity<\/h2><p>The ranking changes when we look at salaries in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP is an indicator of price level differences. In other words, it reveals how many currency units a particular quantity of goods or services costs in different countries.<\/p>\n<p>The use of PPP can \u201celiminate the effect of price level differences across countries,\u201d according to Eurostat as it can be used as a currency conversion rate of sorts to convert expenditures expressed in national currencies into an artificial common currency.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, nurses\u2019 PPP-based salaries ranged from \u20ac18,700 in Lithuania to \u20ac66,800 in Luxembourg. The average among 20 EU countries was \u20ac35,300. While the gaps in PPP between countries are narrower compared to the differences in nominal salaries, they still vary significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium (\u20ac62,300) and the Netherlands (\u20ac50,600) follow Luxembourg in terms of highest PPP-based salaries. At the bottom, Lithuania is followed by Latvia (\u20ac18,800) and Portugal (\u20ac21,400).\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Annual gross salaries of nurses in terms of purchasing power parity (2020*)<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/11995189?60023\"><script src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////public.flourish.studio//resources//embed.js/"> \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In Finland (\u20ac31,200), the PPP-based salary of nurses was lower than the EU average.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, Turkey (\u20ac31,700) had a higher PPP-based salary for nurses than several EU countries such as Finland, Italy, and Greece.<\/p>\n<h2>Nurses are paid less than the average wage in France<\/h2><p>The ratio of nurses\u2019 salaries to average wages in each county is also a useful indicator. The average wage in a country is based on the total wages paid and the average number of employees in the total economy.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the ratio of a nurse\u2019s salary to the average wage varied from 0.88 in Lithuania to 1.58 in Belgium. This means that nurses in Belgium earn 1.58 times more than the average wage in the country. This ratio was 1.2 on average for 20 EU countries.<\/p>\n<p>In Finland, Latvia, France, Switzerland, and Lithuania, nurses are paid less than the country\u2019s average wage. The ratio of a nurse\u2019s salary to the average wage was 0.91 in France and 0.88 in Switzerland. Ratios were higher in Spain (1.5), the Czech Republic (1.42), and Poland (1.36).<\/p>\n<h2>Ratio of nurses' salaries to average wages<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/11995446?60023\"><script src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////public.flourish.studio//resources//embed.js/"> \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>How have nurses' salaries changed in the last decade?<\/h2><p>The nominal change in annual gross salaries of nurses between 2010 and 2020 was highest in Iceland, where wages rose by 123 per cent in the last decade. Nominal change refers to values obtained when inflation is not taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>Some EU member states, such as Hungary (104 per cent), Estonia (94 per cent), the Czech Republic (92 per cent), and Slovakia (91 per cent), also saw dramatic increases in this period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Nominal changes in salaries of nurses in euro between 2010 and 2020<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/12095080?60023\"><script src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////public.flourish.studio//resources//embed.js/"> \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Nurses\u2019 salaries fell in three European countries between 2010 and 2020: Norway (1 per cent), Italy (4 per cent), and Greece (16 per cent). In Norway, the decrease was caused by changes in the exchange rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Change in real terms: Decline in the UK and stagnation in France<\/h2><p>Change in real terms is more meaningful as it takes inflation into account. Among nine selected countries, salaries increased in seven countries in real terms between 2010 and 2020 (Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Spain, and Belgium). However, they declined by 6 per cent in the UK in this period (2010-2019) and did not change in France.<\/p>\n<h2>Changes in salaries of nurses in real terms* between 2010 and 2020<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/12080440?60023\"><script src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////public.flourish.studio//resources//embed.js/"> \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>A closer look at the UK<\/h2><p>When we look more closely at the UK, the figures show how the salaries of nurses declined in real terms whereas nominal salaries rose between 2010 and 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nominal salary and salary in real terms were equal in 2010 at 100 points. The nominal salary then constantly increased, reaching 110 points in 2019. 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celebration when people are in record numbers having to rely upon food banks, are facing poverty on an unbelievable scale?\" he said.\u00a0 \n\nSouthall, known as \"Little India\u201d, the west London neighbourhood is home to the largest Indian population outside their home country. \n\nA street party will be organised by a group of local women that promises to feature Punjabi food, Punjabi dancing and singing. \n\nGulu Anand, who owns Southall\u2019s Brilliant curry house and has cooked for King Charles III several times over the years, is one vocal supporter. \n\n\u201c(Charles) actually listens to you, wants to know from where you\u2019ve come,\u201d he said, recalling the royal\u2019s demeanour when he ate at his restaurant. \n\n\u201cI think he is the people\u2019s King.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Towns, cities and villages across the UK are awash with Union flags and patriotic decorations to celebrate King Charles III's coronation this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>While officials say the festivities will bring Britain\u2019s diverse communities together, the\u00a0event is viewed with a large dose of ambivalence by some, not least those with African-Caribbean backgrounds and other minorities for whom the British Empire\u2019s past wrongs still loom large.<\/p>\n<p>Musician Deronne White is a descendant of migrants from Jamaica, a former British colony and Commonwealth member that wants to cut its ties with the monarchy and called for Britain\u2019s royals to address their historical ties to slavery.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of the Brixton Chamber Orchestra which is planning to parade through south London\u2019s streets entertaining crowds with an uplifting \u201ccoronation carnival\u201d set mixing Gospel, jazz, grime, disco and rap.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div 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actual event and maybe the history behind it that I think with music they can be that sort of connection,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>With the UK economy on the precipice of recession, some question the cost of the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Adrianna Forbes-Dorant, who plays the violin alongside White, said: \"It is strange that this event would happen at a time when people don't really have the money to get by on.\"<\/p>\n<p>Across the capital, Janpal Basran, the head of the Southall Community Alliance, raised the same point.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7564502,7562926,7545246\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a 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