The number of foreign tourists visiting Slovenia in 2021 increased by 50.7 percent year-on-year, according to the country’s Statistical Office. Last year, the country hosted 1.8 million foreign tourists, mostly from Germany, Austria, Italy, Croatia [Read More]
Malta is to abolish the requirement of presenting a COVID-19 vaccine certificate to enter restaurants from Feb. 7. The current rules, which came into force on Jan. 17, were met with heavy criticism and even [Read More]
The strict measures introduced by the Dutch government to combat coronavirus coupled with a higher-than-expected inflation rate are bound to lead to a lower-than-expected economic growth in the Netherlands in 2022, analysts said. “Our forecasts [Read More]
Deutsche Bank, Germany’s financial services giant reported a more than fourfold increase in its net profit in 2021 to 2.5 billion euros (2.8 billion U.S. dollars), the highest level since 2011. The bank’s pre-tax profit [Read More]
One year after the United Kingdom’s (UK) withdrawal from the European Union (EU), Germany’s exports to the UK decreased by 2.5 percent year-on-year to 65.4 billion euros (72.8 billion U.S. dollars) in 2021, the Federal [Read More]
Spain’s economy grew by 5 percent in 2021, the country’s National Statistical Institute (INE) has said. The growth, however, is below the government’s target. The government had expected gross domestic product (GDP) to increase by [Read More]
Italian President Sergio Mattarella was elected to a second term by the parliament gathered in a joint session in the eighth round of voting on Saturday. The following is a profile of Mattarella. Mattarella, 80, [Read More]
Russia on Saturday reported 113,122 new cases over the past 24 hours, the first time it recorded over 100,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day, taking the nationwide tally to 11,615,779. The nationwide death [Read More]
Car production in the UK has been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, falling by 6.7 percent to 859,575 units in 2021, the worst total since 1956, an industry report says. “The shortage of semiconductors, [Read More]
A Swedish athlete tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Beijing, despite six negative PCR-tests during the previous week and the squad being issued with high-tech masks for the journey. The Swedish Olympic Committee (SOC) [Read More]
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