Now playing Next Romania Romania set to ease its lockdown next month after fines pay dividends Police in Romania issued around 200,000 lockdown-related fines in the last month. This crackdown may have helped precipitate today's announcement that confinement will be eased from mid-May. 22/04/2020
Now playing Next Belgium Analysis: Can we trust Belgium's COVID-19 death statistics? Belgium is facing an unusual problem, our political editor Darren McCaffrey writes. It's being accused of being “too honest” and overestimating the country’s death toll. 22/04/2020
Now playing Next Real Economy EU's 100 billion euro scheme to tackle coronavirus unemployment In partnership with The European Commission With unemployment surging across Europe and worldwide, will the EU's SURE scheme (Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency) help avoid another pandemic - joblessness - once the COVID-19 emergency has receded? 22/04/2020
Now playing Next France Unrest in Paris as residents accuse police of heavy-handed tactics Residents say authorities are being heavy-handed in their efforts to impose the lockdown. 22/04/2020
Now playing Next World News Euroviews. Closing holes in the net: How the EU needs to remove secrecy from European fishing ǀ View The ongoing revision of the Fisheries Control Regulation provides a crucial opportunity to remove the continuing veil of secrecy that shrouds member states’ efforts to control their fishing fleet and that has allowed infringements of EU law to go unpunished. 22/04/2020
Now playing Next United Kingdom Join the debate as two survivors talk about their battle with COVID-19 The Q&A gets underway at 16h CEST today. 22/04/2020
Now playing Next Sweden Sweden's coronavirus strategy: Right or wrong? Stockholm has stuck to its guns on the country's divisive coronavirus strategy despite the rest of Europe choosing to lock down. 22/04/2020
Now playing Next World News Earth Day at 50: 'No country is getting it right,' activists say Environmentalists will come together today to demand greater action to protect the planet. 22/04/2020
Now playing Next United Kingdom UK 'opted in' to EU ventilators scheme, minister says It was previously believed that Britain made a 'political decision' not to take part as it was leaving the EU. 22/04/2020
Now playing Next World News Coronavirus: Complacency 'one of greatest dangers we face' warns WHO Follow our coronavirus blog for updates 22/04/2020
Now playing Next Netherlands Dutch primary schools to reopen in easing of COVID-19 restrictions Primary schools in the Netherlands will open part time on May 11 but bars and restaurants will not open until after May 19. 21/04/2020
Now playing Next World News Analysis: Is Sweden right in its handling of COVID-19? Risky, reckless, an outlier... Sweden has been at the centre of much debate over the past few weeks. Our Political Editor, Darren McCaffrey, asks "Why has it not ruthlessly pursued lockdown like everyone else? Is it doing the right thing?" 21/04/2020
Now playing Next United Kingdom Coronavirus: 'UK to begin testing vaccine on humans this week' The UK's health minister Matt Hancock said human trials for a COVID-19 vaccine would begin this week. 21/04/2020
Now playing Next Spain 'We all sink or all float': Spain wants EU to back €1.5tn virus fund "In this crisis, either we all sink or we all float. Spain wants everybody to float, for sure," Spain's foreign affairs minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya told Euronews. 21/04/2020
Now playing Next Andorra Orderly Andorra has an unusual system for easing lockdown restrictions Confinement is being eased in tiny Andorra, but there are plenty of caveats. 21/04/2020
Now playing Next Living 10 hacks to make your food last longer during self-isolation From batch cooking to store cupboard staples, what's the best way to use up food during the COVID-19 lockdown? 21/04/2020
Now playing Next No Comment Pittsburgh protesters push for an end to coronavirus confinement They argue the lockdowns - aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 - limit individual freedoms and harm the economy. 21/04/2020
Now playing Next World News Euroviews. COVID-19 is the catalyst we need to fight nationalism – by uniting us all to solve the crisis ǀ View As a global problem encompassing oceans and continents, the idea that a pandemic is considered to be a country-specific problem is one of the most short-sighted considerations that world leaders have drawn. 21/04/2020
Now playing Next World News Coronavirus could make rising global hunger worse, warns new report More than 130 million people worldwide suffered from acute food insecurity last year. COVID-19 could push that number higher, a new report has warned. 21/04/2020
Now playing Next Greece Euroviews. Using empty Greek hotels to host refugees threatened by COVID-19 is a win-win scenario ǀ View While the first attempt to use empty hotels for quarantining a thousand of the most vulnerable migrants on the Greek islands has just been announced by the European Commission, more remains to be done. 21/04/2020