The hills are alive with the sound of protest. In France, a land where skiing is a ten billion euro business that employs 120-thousand professionals, the natives are up in arms over the government's ban on skiing over the Christmas holiday, same story in Italy. While over in Austria, the slopes reopen Christmas Eve but hotels and restaurants are closed, effectively dissuading foreigners from traveling over. Winter sports testing European unity but it is not just about social distancing.To avert a repeat of last Spring's face mask nationalism, the E-U 27 to roll out mass Covid vaccinations in synch.

By television talk show standards, this one's on the high brow end of the scale. Sometimes though, there is no avoiding a sex scandal. One of the architects of Hungary's constitution and the provision that states that marriage is only between a man and a woman caught with his pants down. Now former member of the European parliament Jojhef Zsayyer caught escaping through the guttering of a lockdown-breaking gay sex party in Brussels with 30 others, with narcotics in his backpack.

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