BERLIN (Reuters) – More than 20 countries and territories in Europe have launched or plan smartphone apps that seek to break the chain of coronavirus infection by tracking encounters between people and issuing a warning should one of them test positive.
Source: Explainer: Europe’s coronavirus smartphone contact tracing apps – Reuters
Convicted of racism, accused of Nazi ties, known for burnings of the Quran… and about to become a Danish MP?
Danish lawyer Rasmus Paludan was little known a few months ago but his far-right party has gained traction ahead of a general election on June 5.
His political movement — Stram Kurs (Hard Line) — calls itself the party for “ethnic Danes”, wants to ban Islam and deport all Muslims from Denmark.
His party is forecast to win 2.3%, according to a recent poll published by Voxmeter, which would be enough to enter parliament.
Hard Line’s rise comes as support for the country’s biggest nationalist movement, Danish People’s Party, has fallen.
“Hard Line’s only agenda is to be extremely tough on refugees, immigrants and Muslims in particular, and that attracts a small group of voters who think anti-immigration policies can always get harder and more radical,” said elections specialist and professor of political science at Copenhagen University, Kasper Møller Hansen.
Since founding his party in July 2017, Paludan has earned a following on YouTube and Snapchat but in recent months he emerged from virtual stardom among teenagers to securing election candidacy by gathering the required 20,000 digital signatures of endorsement from voters.
In April, a Danish court found Paludan guilty of racism after he argued that people from Africa are less intelligent.
Paludan said in a December 2018 video: “The enemy is Islam and Muslims. The best thing would be if there were not a single Muslim left on this earth. Then we would have reached our final goal.”
The foundation of Hard Line is “ethnonationalism” and Paludan says you need at least two grandparents of Danish origins to prove you are Danish.
Martin Krasnik, editor-in-chief of the Danish newspaper “Weekendavisen”, called Paludan a Nazi in a recent editorial. He said that Paludan is “clearly familiar with the Nuremberg laws” from Nazi-era Germany.
Paludan denies having any associations with Nazism.
Source: Rasmus Paludan: Meet the far-right leader who wants to deport all Muslims from Denmark | Euronews
From Winston Churchill in the 1940s to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in our era, peace and prosperity have always been put forward as the two main goals of European integration. The EU founding fathers saw the European project as a way of taming nationalist passions by serving mutual commercial interests: a common political and economic entity that would guarantee both peace and economic progress.
In his famous United States of Europe speech in Zürich on September 19, 1946, Churchill argued that “the sovereign remedy” to the plight of post-war Europe was “to recreate the European family, or as much of it as we can, and to provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety, and in freedom”.
Source: EU membership has many benefits, but economic growth is not one of them – new findings : The Conversation
In close collaboration with innovative Danish companies and partners, Healthcare DENMARK has produced a brand new White Paper that presents the Danish approach to national implementation of telehealth and a broad range of ground-breaking solutions that contribute to making the Danish healthcare system more efficient and improve patient safety and treatment quality.
Denmark has been working strategically with telehealth for years. At the core of these efforts are a number of small and large-scale telehealth projects carried out across the Danish healthcare sector. This White Paper describes some of Denmark’s most promising and successful telehealth concepts – along with the potential or documented gains for the patients as well as the healthcare system as a whole.
Source: Healthcare DENMARK – New inspiring White Paper: Denmark – A Telehealth Nation
Germans, Danes and Belgians pay the most for their electricity in Europe, followed by households on the Iberian peninsula, according to data from Eurostat.
When the figures are adjusted to take into account different spending power across the countries, Germany retains the top spot although Portugal climbs into second place.
Source: Which European countries have the most expensive electricity? : euronews
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