Currently ten European countries have compulsory military service: Austria, Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.
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The coronavirus pandemic has seen the EU s economic divisions come to light as the bloc suffers a recession. Throughout 2020, leaders negotiated a recovery fund worth over £500billion designed to stimulate the economy. But member states clashed over spending, distribution of the fund and the rule of law, leading to a standoff between Hungary, Poland and the rest of the bloc. Economic differences have existed for decades in the EU, with northern nations generally advocating restricted spending and southern countries calling for inves
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President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has fanned the flames in the UK-EU vaccine feud today as she threatened to block exports to Britain.She said all options are on the table to boost the EU s stuttering immunisation campaign, including moves to halt exports to countries which have higher vaccination rates than us .The EU chief added: We are still waiting for doses to come from the UK, so this is an invitation to show us that there are also doses from the UK coming to the European Union. Open roads run in bot
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Brexit represented the first occasion a country has left the EU in its current form, sending shockwaves through Europe. The UK s decision coincided with rising euroscepticism in some of the EU s biggest member states, and sparked speculation over who could be next to leave the bloc. In 2017, Dutch pollster Maurice de Hond undertook a survey in which 56 percent of Dutch people were in favour of leaving the EU if there was a referendum tomorrow. This led to Robert Oulds, Directo
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Israel s vaccination programme has been praised as the country begins to open up. About 40 percent of the country s population has been vaccinated, contrasting greatly with the rollout in the EU. Germany and France have fully inoculated around three percent of their population as Europe continues to struggle with the rollout. Austria and Denmark appear to have lost patience due to the delay, as Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz indicated last week. He said: “We must prepar