future referendum in Scotland, demonstration in Turkey and concerns over monkeypox in Switzerland

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Like every evening, 11 p.m. takes a tour of the news broadcast by European television channels. It’s Eurozapping on Tuesday June 14th.

Towards a new campaign for independence in Scotland. This is the will displayed by the Scottish Prime Minister. In an official statement, Nicola Sturgeon pleaded for a break with the United Kingdom. “After all that’s happened with Brexit, Covid and Boris Johnson, it’s time to define a different and better vision. It’s time to talk about independence and then make a choice“, she said. She wants the Scots to speak no later than 2023; an independence referendum which London opposes.

In Turkey, women have taken to the streets. In the capital Ankara, they demonstrate to protest against the project of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, to withdraw his country from the Istanbul Convention. A treaty on preventing and combating violence against women, signed by 45 countries, 11 years ago. “It is a project against the law. The text is not in line with fundamental human rights and democracy“, abounds a demonstrator. According to NGOs, a woman is killed almost every day in Turkey.

In Switzerland, the WHO is concerned about the evolution of monkeypox. Experts want to curb the spread of the epidemic which is now running on the European continent. In order to fight the epidemic, the European Union announced that it had purchased 110,000 doses of vaccine.


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