Tag: Europe

EU Ambassador to China: “Chinese Virus” is a meaningless blaming game | Phoenix News

“Italy, Spain, Germany, France … In the spring of 2020, the new coronavirus is rampant in Europe. Many readers feel that medical development is as developed as in Europe, and it is difficult to escape. They also recognize that the European epidemic prevention thinking is different from China.

So as the world’s most integrated regional organization, what work does the EU do in the fight against the epidemic? What kind of cooperation exists between China and the United States? What is the attitude towards the controversy about the source of the virus and the closure of the city? 2020 is a year of China-EU cooperation. Will the China-EU summit consultations continue under the epidemic? Where does the bilateral agreement go? How to cooperate in the post-epidemic era?

On April 3, 2020, Phoenix Network ’s Interview with Diplomats took these questions and talked to the European Union Ambassador to China Mr. Nicolas Chapuis.”

Read and watch the full interview (in English, English subtitles) and article @ Phoenix News:

凤凰专报| 欧盟驻华大使： 叫“中国病毒”是无意义的甩锅游戏_凤凰网资讯_凤凰网
这并不是“中国病毒”，而是人类病毒，与中国无关。相互指责没有意义，人类需要在与自然打交道时更加谨慎。

How Europe failed the coronavirus test | Politico

“They could have known. They should have prepared. They didn’t listen.

Europe, in early April, remains the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic — where the outbreak, uncontrolled, morphed into catastrophe. Nearly 50,000 dead. More than 600,000 infected. And the devastation is far from over.

The world’s largest economy is paralyzed. The planet’s most open societies are frozen in fear — with the Continent’s treasured freedoms blamed for accelerating the spread of the most pernicious contagion to afflict humankind in more than 100 years.

It is a crisis with no end in sight. And it is one that Europe’s top leaders failed to see coming.

They failed to hear the warnings that containment would prove ineffective. They failed to heed experts who said no country could fight the virus on its own, failed to perceive that the world’s most advanced health care systems were at grave risk of being overwhelmed. They failed to understand that drastic measures would be needed until Italy — patient zero among EU member countries — frantically imposed travel restrictions that impeded European leaders’ own movements.”

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How Europe failed the coronavirus test
Contagion’s spread is a story of complacency, overconfidence and lack of preparation.

COVID-19: genetic network analysis provides ‘snapshot’ of pandemic origins | University of Cambridge

“Researchers from Cambridge, UK, and Germany have reconstructed the early “evolutionary paths” of COVID-19 in humans – as infection spread from Wuhan out to Europe and North America – using genetic network techniques.

By analysing the first 160 complete virus genomes to be sequenced from human patients, the scientists have mapped some of the original spread of the new coronavirus through its mutations, which creates different viral lineages.”

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COVID-19: genetic network analysis provides ‘snapshot’ of pandemic origins
Study charts the “incipient supernova” of COVID-19 through genetic mutations as it spread from China and Asia to Australia, Europe and North America. Researchers say their methods could be used to help identify undocumented infection sources.

Coronavirus lockdown in Europe | Reuters

“The European Union closed its borders to foreign travellers for 30 days on March 16 in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus in Europe. All non-essential travel to the 27-member bloc has been restricted, while individual countries have increased their own border controls and enacted severe restrictions on public life by closing businesses and schools and limiting public gatherings.”

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Coronavirus lockdown in Europe
Tracking the latest measures by country to contain the coronavirus in Europe.

EY: Swiss companies are becoming less and less attractive to Chinese investors | moneycab

“The reluctance of Chinese companies to take over companies in Switzerland and Europe continues: in the first half of this year, only 81 takeovers and company holdings were counted across Europe – 27 percent less than in the same period last year when 113 European companies still had a Chinese owner. With hardly any large transactions, the investment volume declined significantly by 84 percent from $ 15.3 billion to $ 2.4 billion.”

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EY: Schweizer Unternehmen verlieren zunehmend an Attraktivität für chinesische Investoren | Moneycab
Das Transaktionsvolumen chinesischer Unternehmen hierzulande ist im ersten Halbjahr von 387 Mio USD 96 Mio geschrumpft.