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West European Politics is a peer-reviewed academic journal of comparative politics focusing on Western Europe. It was established in 1978 [1] and serves as one of the main publication venues in that field. [2] Its founding editors-in-chief were Vincent Wright and Gordon Smith; the current editors are Klaus Goetz, Anand Menon and
Fourty-four people are presumed dead from drowning when a boat carrying refugees from Sierra Leone capsizes on its way from Sfax, Tunisia, to Europe. Health and environment. Environmental issues in Iran. Iran announces that all government offices, universities, and schools in Tehran province will be closed for two days due to severe air pollution.
Eight departments in northern and western France were put under flood alert. [25] Particularly affected was the town of Arques in the Pas-de-Calais department. [26] The River Aa overflowed following heavy rains. [27] On 10 March, five people were killed by floods following violent storms across southern France, [28] with seven others reported ...
Floods started in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland on 14 July 2021 after record rainfall across western Europe caused multiple rivers to burst their banks. [15] The European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) issued alerts of life-threatening floods in advance, which, although very vague, were delivered to national authorities. [16]
7 March: World Health Organization has warned that COVID-19 Delta cron hybrid infection rate has another rising in 10 Western European countries including U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Netherlands, and Italy, who fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron BA.2 subvariant, accounting for three-quarters of cases.
The 2024 Central European floods were a series of floods caused by a record heavy rainfall generated by Storm Boris, an extremely humid Genoa low.The flooding began in Austria and the Czech Republic, then spread to Poland, Romania and Slovakia, and then onwards to Germany and Hungary.
Storm Ciarán, known in Germany as Storm Emir [7] was a European windstorm that severely affected parts of Europe from late October to early November 2023. Part of the 2023–24 European windstorm season, Ciarán impacted northwestern Europe and killed 21 people, eleven of whom were in Italy and four in France. It also caused mass disruption to ...
In the Western Group, consisting of the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, a storm is named if one of those meteorological agencies issues an orange warning (known as amber in the UK per its National Severe Weather Warning Service system), which generally requires a likelihood of widespread sustained wind speeds greater than 65 km/h, or ...