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Austria’s government appears to have bowed to pressure from Germany, France and Italy and will ban skiing holidays over the Christmas break in an attempt to control the coronavirus pandemic, Austrian media is reporting.
The decision, expected to be officially announced on Wednesday, follows heated disagreements between Berlin and Vienna.
On Tuesday morning, Austria’s tourist minister accused the German government of interfering in its domestic affairs after Angela Merkel said she had wanted a ban on skiing holidays. The chancellor secured the backing of the Italian and French governments as well as the leaders of the 16 German states.
COVID jails: Germany clamps down on quarantine violators
In Germany, some local authorities have set up accommodation to lock up people who refuse to abide by coronavirus quarantine rules. But will these prisons actually be used, or just act as a deterrent?
Quarantine violators may end up in this accommodation
On the outskirts of a small town in northern Germany, the unused annex of a juvenile detention center has been granted a new lease of life as a COVID jail. Six rooms have been set up to house those who refuse to abide by coronavirus quarantine rules. The isolation of suspected infected people in their own homes is an essential element in getting the infection rate under control, Sönke Schulz, representative of the local district council in Neumünster in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, told reporters when the facility was opened in January.
DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199791279-0198
Introduction
Historians still debate what to call the conflict that convulsed Central Europe from 1618 to 1648. Although it is largely accepted that this is âThe Thirty Years War,â and indeed some people called it that shortly after it was over, some historians use this phrase to denote other wars, beginning earlier or ending later. This Thirty Years War was one of the most destructive conflicts on earth. Although the fighting took place primarily in central Europe, this complex multifaceted struggle eventually sucked in people from Ireland to Muscovy west to east, and from Norway to Italy north to south. Compared to the population at the time, it may have been proportionally more deadly than any war in western or central Europe before or since. This is an excellent time for Thirty Years War research. Some tenacious misunderstandings about the way early-17th-century strategy and combat worked are being rooted out. Primary source researc