Europe

Employees of public institutions will receive, between 2022 and 2026, holiday vouchers worth 1.450 lei each (US$330), with an estimated impact on the budget amounting to 8,65 billion lei in total (almost US$2 billion)

Right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) MP Dagmar Belakowitsch caused outrage by claiming that hospitals were not filled with the unvaccinated, but with people who needed treatment because of vaccination damage

An international campaign against gender-based violence, with 16 days of activism and information, ends today in the country, were violence against women is widespread and usually severely underfunded

The Financial Market Authority of Liechtenstein has elected Christian Batliner, former Member of the Board of Directors, as new President

EU statistics agency reports that in the country women have fewer top jobs, with low proportion of female managers, but better pay

The person who stole 40 blocks of cheese and a few bottles of alcohol from Acocks Green supermarket on October 30 is now standing trial for the theft, estimated to be worth £600, of which he will have to pay £200 in compensation

The Monaco Science Centre is now the 27th and last public building in Monaco to benefit from the national green fund in 2021 and the second building to be equipped with photovoltaic panels

The Ministry of Environment is proposing a national schedule for waste collection, effectively standardising the days on which different waste streams are collected, which now vary by locality

The country will use a more creative approach to exports to Europe and will try to divert shipments of domestic products to other countries; experts estimate the value of exports affected by the sanctions at around $250-300 million a year

Assandca, the Andorran Association Against Cancer, has raised over €5.607 so far with the sale of the solidarity bracelet created on the occasion of World Breast Cancer Day; the product is available until the end of the Christmas holidays on its website

A university study shows that almost 70% of theatre-related freelancers received no government support during the pandemic period

39% of Latvians with a disability are at risk of social exclusion, among the top four EU states with the highest rates in this regard

An avalanche in the Salzburg region killed three people of which two while skiing off-piste; in recent years, an average of about 20 people a year have been killed by avalanches in the country