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Europe apos;s Largest Tech Conference To Return As In-person Event In 2021

2020-12-30T22:57:42Z

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By Catarina Demony LISBON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Europe's biggest technology conference, the Web Summit, will return to Lisbon in full force as a massive in-person event in 2021 after the coronavirus pandemic forced it to go fully online this year. "The venue is booked," the conference's founder Paddy Cosgrave told Reuters on Wednesday in an interview. "I think by November (next year) the Web Summit will be happening in-person and I can't wait." The event, which moved from Dublin to the [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Portuguese%20capital Portuguese capital] in 2016, attracts about 70,000 participants every year, drawing speakers from leading global tech companies and startups, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] as well as politicians. But due to the outbreak, which has forced the cancellation or postponement of many major [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] events, this year's Web Summit will be held online next week. It will be able to host 100,000 attendees online on its own conference platform and hundreds of speakers will join the event, including the head of the European Commission and chief executives of big firms, such as Zoom. Without revealing names, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] Cosgrave said next year some of the world's biggest conferences will take place on the pricey platform created by the Web Summit, with one paying a fee of 6.5 million euros to use it. In 2021 the Web Summit hopes to welcome 70,000 attendees to Lisbon plus up to 80,000 online, mixing in-person and virtual experiences as a way to attract more people, from more places. "I have no doubt it will be just great to get everyone back to Lisbon," Cosgrave said, adding people who live in places such as in Japan or New Zealand would be more likely to attend because of the online option. On Tuesday evening, Cosgrave announced on Twitter there will be a South American Web Summit in 2022 in either Rio de Janeiro or Porto Alegre in Brazil. "Brazil is an absolutely fantastic, thriving country," Cosgrave said. "Holding each year, in the build up to November's Lisbon Web Summit, events in key regions of the world is a good idea." (Reporting by Catarina Demony; Editing by Kirsten Donovan and David Goodman)

Portugal: Young Climate Activists Get Strasbourg Court Boost

2020-12-30T22:14:54Z

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LISBON, Portugal (AP) - The European Court of Human Rights is requiring a prompt response from 33 countries to an ambitious climate change case brought by six young Portuguese, a move that activists said gave heart to their cause. The court on Monday ordered the European countries to respond to the complaint and granted it priority status because of the "importance and urgency of the issues raised." The two young Portuguese adults and four children filed their claim last September at the Strasbourg, France-based court. They want the court to hold the countries accountable for their allegedly inadequate efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The group is supported by the Global Legal Action Network, a [http://dict.leo.org/?search=international%20nonprofit international nonprofit] organization that challenges human rights violations, and a team of five London lawyers. The countries named in the complaint include the 27 member nations of the European Union plus the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. The court´s decision to demand [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] a swift response from the defendant countries is "highly significant," said [http://www.recruitingblogs.com/main/search/search?q=Global%20Legal Global Legal] Action Network director [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] Gearóid Ó Cuinn, because "only a tiny minority of cases" merit such treatment. The court will attempt to broker an amicable agreement in the case before it proceeds to litigation. If the activists win their case, the countries would be legally bound to cut emissions in line with the requirements of the 2015 Paris climate accord. They would also have to address their role in overseas emissions, including by their multinational companies. ___ Follow all AP coverage of climate change issues at website

Portugal apos;s Year-on-year Jobless Numbers Jump 34 In October

2020-12-30T19:48:34Z

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LISBON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The number of people registered as unemployed in Portugal was 34.5% higher in October from a year ago due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, with the tourism-dependent Algarve region suffering the hardest blow, official data showed on Thursday. The total of those officially without a job rose to 403,554 people, meaning more than 100,000 jobs have been lost across the nation since October 2019, the Institute for Employment and Vocational Training said. In the southern Algarve, famous for its beaches and golf courses, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] the number of registered jobless rose 134% to 24,088 last month from a year ago. Though the year-on-year figures showed a huge jump, the number of those registered as jobless fell 1.6% in Portugal as a whole in October compared to the previous month. Around 72% of the newly unemployed worked in the services sector including restaurants and retail stores, now open but that were shut during a six-week lockdown earlier this year. The government expects the unemployment rate, which had [http://www.cafemom.com/search/index.php?keyword=gradually%20fallen gradually fallen] to record lows during the recovery, to rise to 8.7% this year due to the pandemic, but experts say the [http://sportsrants.com/?s=actual%20jobless actual jobless] level would be much higher as the official rate does not include those who stopped looking for jobs. The coronavirus outbreak, so far numbering 235,015 confirmed cases and 3,632 deaths, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hà giang] is set to hammer Portugal's economy. The government expects gross domestic product to contract by 8.5% this year, which would be the worst slump in almost a century. (Reporting by Catarina Demony; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Believes

2020-12-30T15:52:03Z

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COVID-19 Worsens Europe apos;s Inequalities In Yet Another Way - The...

2020-12-30T12:32:53Z

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By Catarina Demony and Gavin Jones LISBON/ROME, Dec 1 (Reuters) - "It's time to become a mum," was the push-notification hundreds of Portuguese women received on their cell phones last month. The text, sent by a private hospital in Lisbon trying to drum up clients for its maternity unit, [https://twitter.com/search?q=caused%20outrage&src=typd caused outrage] on social media, with some women saying that the middle of a pandemic and recession is the worst possible time to have a baby. Evidence suggests the coronavirus is deterring would-be parents from conceiving in most of Europe, but especially in the southern countries - from Italy to Greece - where safety nets are weakest and the birth rate was already in strong decline. In the year 2000, there were 120,000 births in Portugal. Last year there were 86,600, a drop of 39%. The fall has been steepest following deep recessions such as the current one triggered by COVID-19. As well as the emotional challenges now for couples wanting children, in the long run there will also be economic challenges for countries that could face years of struggle to pull themselves out of the mire. Fewer births means fewer and older workers. This will eventually be a drag on economic output and a strain on public pension schemes and welfare states, widening the gap between the richer north of Europe and the poorer south. "You see stories in the media and elsewhere about people making the most of the lockdown to make babies, but that is the opposite of rational behaviour," says Vanessa Cunha, a specialist in fertility, gender and family issues at University of Lisbon's ICS. "The pandemic will have a big negative impact." Irene Pontarelli, a 35-year-old psychiatric rehabilitation therapist, had planned to have her first child this year after seven years of marriage. After two years working in the northern Italian city of Ferrara, some 550 km (340 miles) from her husband Tony, she finally found a job in her native town of Isernia, in the south, and it seemed a perfect time to start a family. Then the coronavirus hit. She was unable to see Tony at all between March and July because of the lockdown, and says she is now too stressed to have a child. "Our hospitals are close to collapse, especially in the south. I see myself in a maternity ward, alone, in a health system that doesn't work properly. It doesn't feel the right moment to bring a new baby into the world," she said. NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE Maria Vicario, president of Italy's National Order of Midwives, said she expected the crisis to have a "clear impact" on births next year. "Women in Italy have children when they feel secure from a work, economic and health point of view. All that has been disrupted by the pandemic," she said. The Lazio region around Rome has seen still births triple this year because pregnant women are scared to go to hospital for checkups, she added. At the other end of the continent in Sweden, with its generous and efficient welfare state, Eva Nordlund, president of the Swedish Association of Midwives, said the opposite seemed to be happening. "There are pregnancy care centres that struggle with registrations due to so many new pregnancies," she said. In Germany, Europe's largest economy, the fertility rate before the pandemic was around the EU average of 1.5 births per woman. France, Sweden and Denmark lead the bloc with rates above 1.7. At the other end, Italy and Spain are below 1.3. A study of Europe's five largest countries during the first wave of the coronavirus in March and April, showed over two thirds of people under the age of 34 planned to scrap or postpone having a baby due to the pandemic. Respondents were far more prone to cancel their plans for a family in Italy and Spain than in Britain, France and Germany, according to the research led by Milan's Cattolica University. Rui Pires, a sociologist at the Lisbon University Institute, said the key factors behind falling birth rates were gender inequality and a lack of state support for bringing up children. In both areas, southern Europe lags the north, he said, adding that "inequalities have become more evident due to the pandemic". REELING FROM RECESSION Italy and Spain, more than the other countries in the spring study, are still suffering the consequences of the double-dip recession caused by the financial and debt crises between 2008 and 2012. As in Portugal and Greece, young people of child-bearing age were hit hardest by the recessions. Thousands moved abroad and those who remained struggle with weak earning prospects, high unemployment and a lack of childcare facilities. "Italy is a demographically moribund country," says Alessandro Rosina, a Cattolica University demographics professor who jointly conducted its study. "The situation was already desperate and now the pandemic threatens to wipe out any residual hopes of salvation," he said. Annual births in Italy have fallen steadily from above 800,000 until the mid-1970s to 420,000 in 2019, the lowest number since the country's unification in 1861. Gian Carlo Blangiardo, head of official statistics bureau ISTAT, told parliament last week the coronavirus emergency and the economic hardship it has brought would accelerate the trend, forecasting 408,000 births this year and just 393,000 in 2021. He said births could even dip under 400,000 this year because of a "substantial fall in December", nine months after Italy's lockdown was adopted in March. In Spain, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] which has the second lowest fertility rate in Europe after tiny Malta, [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hà giang] births were already falling fast before the coronavirus, posting a 16% drop between 2014 and 2019. "It is pretty safe to bet on fewer births next year, possibly a steeper drop than it would have been without COVID, and the trend will probably remain in the years after," said Alejandro Macarron, a demographer at Madrid's CEU University. (Additional reporting by Helena Soderpalm in Stockholm, Inti Landauro in Madrid, Emma Thomasson and Michael Nienaber in Berlin; Writing by Gavin Jones; Editing by Alison Williams)

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2020-12-30T12:30:46Z

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