CDE News Views – This Day in Photos
Today’s salient news in pictures as taken by the pool of photographers of EPA/EFE for CDE News.
epa08743135 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a statement, in Brussels, Belgium, 14 October 2020. Von der Leyen is awarded the Honorary Prize of the German Sustainability Award for her commitment to the ‘European Green Deal’, organizers of the award announced 14 October 2020. EPA-EFE/YVES HERMAN / POOL 
EU Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson addresses a joint news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 14 October 2020. EPA-EFE/FRANCOIS LENOIR / POOL 
epa08743237 European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans and EU Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson (not pictured) address a joint news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 14 October 2020. EPA-EFE/FRANCOIS LENOIR / POOL 
The head of the Polish PM’s Office Michal Dworczyk attends a press conference in Warsaw, Poland. EPA-EFE/Wojciech Olkusnik 
Steven Maijoor, Chairman of the European Securities and Markets Authority. EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov . EPA-EFE/ANDREJ CUKIC 
European Union Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton. EPA-EFE/KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / POOL 
German Chancellor Angela Merkel . EPA-EFE/ALEXANDER BECHER / POOL 
epa08725129 Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya gives an interview after attending a Green Party faction meeting at the Reichstag building, the seat of the German Parliament, in Berlin, Germany, 06 October 2020. Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is on a visit to Berlin at the moment. EPA-EFE/CLEMENS BILAN 
A file photo of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) welcomes European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (R) to 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, 08 January 2020. EPA-EFE/ANDY RAIN 
Hyundai’s Euisun Chung. EPA/TANNEN MAURY 
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte addresses a press conference on the measures to combat and contain the Covid-19 at Palazzo Chigi, Rome, Italy, 13 October 2020. EPA-EFE/ANGELO CARCONI 
epa08739819 Pilgrims sanitization of hands as they access in the Shrine of Fatima, Portugal, 13 October 2020. According to the plan already approved by the Directorate General of Health, the October pilgrimage will be subject to strong restrictions, not allowing more than six thousand people to enter the enclosure as a prevention measure against the covid-19 pandemic. EPA-EFE/PAULO CUNHA 
A medical worker takes nasal swab samples at a test station for Covid-19 coronavirus in Montpellier, France. EPA-EFE/GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO 
epa08742869 Pro-democracy protesters (R) scuffle with pro-monarchy ones (L) during an anti-government protest at the democracy monument in Bangkok, Thailand, 14 October 2020. Pro-democracy protesters take part in a rally against the royalist elite and the military-backed government calling for the resignation of Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, the rewrite of the new charter the monarchy reformed under the constitution. EPA-EFE/RUNGROJ YONGRIT 
A driver has a coronavirus test swab taken in Manila, Philippines. EPA-EFE/FRANCIS R. MALASIG 
An elderly couple wearing protective face masks walks in Zagreb, Croatia. EPA-EFE/ANTONIO BAT 
A passenger waits at coronavirus testing station at the Vnukovo airport in Moscow, Russia. EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV 
epa08742812 A still image taken from a handout video made available on the official website of the Russian State Space Corporation ROSCOSMOS shows the Russian Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-17 manned spacecraft lifting off from the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, 14 October 2020. The spacecraft is carrying crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 64, NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins and Roscosmos cosmounauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov for a 177-day mission on the International Space Station (ISS). EPA-EFE/ROSCOSMOS HANDOUT MANDATORY CREDIT/BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE/HANDOUT/ EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES 
EPA-EFE/JIJI PRESS 
A view of the full moon over Mount Pico Sacro, just outside Santiago de Compostela, Spain. EPA-EFE/LAVANDEIRA JR 
A man stands in the middle of a blocked street by uprooted trees in Neo Heraklio, Attica, Greece. EPA-EFE/ALEXANDROS VLACHOS 
epa08739817 Procession of the Our Lady of Fatima in the Shrine of Fatima, Portugal, 13 October 2020. According to the plan already approved by the Directorate General of Health, the October pilgrimage will be subject to strong restrictions, not allowing more than six thousand people to enter the enclosure as a prevention measure against the covid-19 pandemic. EPA-EFE/PAULO CUNHA 
epa08740829 A visitor takes a photo of a painting after the ceremonial opening of an exhibition of Irish artist Sean Scully’s life’s works ‘Passenger ? A Retrospective’ in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, Hungary, 13 October 2020. The exhibition showcases almost hundred works of Scully, one of the most important contemporary representatives of abstract art. EPA-EFE/Balazs Mohai HUNGARY OUT 
epa08740824 Wearing protective masks against the infection of novel coronavirus Irish artist Sean Scully attends the ceremonial opening of an exhibition of his life?s works ‘Passenger ? A Retrospective’ in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, Hungary, 13 October 2020. The exhibition showcases almost hundred works of Scully, one of the most important contemporary representatives of abstract art. EPA-EFE/Balazs Mohai HUNGARY OUT 
EPA-EFE/Juan Ignacio Roncoroni 
epa08741872 People stand in front of a closed pub in Prague, Czech Republic, 13 October 2020. Czech government decided from 14 October restaurants, bars and clubs are closed due to new measures in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus likewise there will also be a ban on drinking alcohol in public. Czech Republic had record rise in COVID-19 disease, increase in newly detected infections exceeded 8,000 the previous week. EPA-EFE/MARTIN DIVISEK 
epa08734329 People attend a ‘No Mask’ protest rally ‘Marcia della Liberazione’ in Rome, Italy, 10 October 2020. The sit-in protest action is held against mandatory usage of face masks in public and in general against the government’s management of the coronavirus Covid19 pandemic, Rome, 10 October 2020. EPA-EFE/MASSIMO PERCOSSI 
epa08743106 Harvest helpers harvest pumpkins on a field near Mutterstadt, Germany, 14 October 2020. The pumpkin harvest in Germany falls between the end of August and the end of October. EPA-EFE/RONALD WITTEK
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