Europe is battling a fifth wave of the COVID-19 amid increasingly hostile anti-lockdown demonstrations. Belgian police used tear gas to disperse protesters in Brussels yesterday when tens of thousands took to the streets to object to new coronavirus restrictions. In the Netherlands, almost 150 people were arrested following anti-lockdown protests in several Dutch cities over the weekend. But not all EU countries are struggling, as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry tells host Marco Werman.
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