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Baltic Way 2021: a human chain against “health dictatorship”

The Editorial Board August 25, 2021

Baltic States – On 23 August, starting at 7 p.m., tens of thousands of people took part in the Baltic Way 2021, a human chain linking Tallinn (Estonia) to Vilnius (Lithuania) via Riga (Latvia). The transnational demonstration is largely inspired by the…

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Health policy: a belated “non possumus” from the Polish episcopate

Agnieszka Golańska-Bault August 19, 2021

The president of the Polish Bishops’ Conference is bitterly critical of the Morawiecki government’s health policy towards the Church. Poland – On August 5, the Polish Catholic Information Agency (KAI) published an article by the president of the bishops’ conference, Archbishop Stanisław…

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Lithuanians rioting against health passports in front of parliament

The Editorial Board August 14, 2021

Lithuania – Around 5,000 demonstrators gathered in Vilnius in front of the Seimas, the national parliament, late on Tuesday afternoon. The purpose of the demonstration staged in the capital city of this Baltic state, which borders Poland and Belarus, was to protest…

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March against compulsory vaccination and Covidian segregation in Katowice

The Editorial Board August 11, 2021

Poland – “We are the fourth wave”, “Stop segregation!”, "Free Poland!”, “Keep your hands off our children!” Several thousand people, many carrying white and red flags and references to the Catholic religion, took part in the “Great Freedom March” held on Saturday…

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Czechia: Babiš “promises” that the vaccine will not be mandatory

The Editorial Board July 30, 2021

Czechia – Whilst the Greeks, Germans, French, Italians and Latvians have recently started to foresee such a move, the Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, during a visit to the Hradec Králové region in north-eastern Bohemia on Thursday 22 July, announced that COVID-19…

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Hungary heading towards an extension of compulsory vaccination?

The Editorial Board July 23, 2021

Hungary – Following the example of France, Greece and Italy, compulsory vaccination against Covid-19 for health workers seems to have been definitively decided in Hungary after Prime Minister Viktor Orbán confirmed it on 16 July on Kossuth Rádió, but it is feared…

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Slovakia: Constitutional Court overturns quarantine for non-vaccinated people

The Editorial Board July 15, 2021

Slovakia – Facing the prospect of the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant – 35 cases had been detected in the country as of July 13, compared with 14 as of July 8 – Slovakia, which is one of the European countries that…

Society

Polish democracy sick with Covid like many others, but still breathing

Olivier Bault July 14, 2021

Poland – On 7 July, the PiS group announced that it once again had a majority in the Sejm thanks to the return of one of the three MPs who had left at the end of June. The government formed by the…

Society

Vaccines: Harsh criticism from Slovakia’s ex-Prime Minister

The Editorial Board June 27, 2021

Slovakia – Following appeals made by Zuzana Čaputová, Slovakian President, and Vladimír Lengvarský, Slovakian health minister, to the three former prime ministers of their country, the leader of Smer DF (populist social-democrats) Robert Fico, head of the government from 2012 to 2018,…

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Conservative journalist banned from television for criticizing Polish government’s anti-Covid policy

Olivier Bault May 13, 2021

Is it still permissible in Poland to criticize the government’s policy against the Covid-19 pandemic? One may have doubts, after public television suspended conservative journalist Jan Pospieszalski’s program Warto Rozmawiać (“It’s worth talking”) following the discussions held on April 12. The speakers,…

Society

Almost a full year of remote schooling for Polish children!

Olivier Bault April 8, 2021

Poland – While the management of the first wave of the pandemic in the spring 2020 by the Polish government, as well as the other governments of the Visegrád Group, may have looked rather good in comparison with the major Western European…

Society

An Austrian tribunal call into question PCR tests

La Rédaction April 3, 2021

Austria – Following a complaint lodged by the FPÖ (Austrian populist party), the administrative tribunal of Vienna has ruled on 24 March that PCR tests could not be considered as reliable way of diagnosing an illness or the level of contagiousness of…