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This article covers daily news and events in June 2021 . An overview of articles on thematic "long-running hits" and on longer-lasting events can be found on the page on current events .

Daily events

Tuesday 1st June 2021

Laura Codruța Kövesi

• Luxembourg City / Luxembourg : The European Public Prosecutor's Office , headed by Laura Codruța Kövesi , begins its work.
• Paris / France : Mathias Cormann succeeds José Ángel Gurría as Secretary General of the OECD .
• Vienna / Austria : Norbert Hofer declares his resignation as party chairman of the FPÖ .

Wednesday June 2nd 2021

The Kharg

• Jask / Iran : The country's second largest military ship, the Kharg , sinks after a fire.
• Jerusalem / Israel : The Israeli parliament elects Yitzchak Herzog as the new president .
• Colombo / Sri Lanka : The container ship X-Press Pearl sank after several days of fire and severe environmental damage while attempting to pull it into deeper waters in the Indian Ocean .

Thursday June 3, 2021

• Kebbi / Nigeria : Armed cattle thieves attack seven villages, killing 66 people.
• Vatican City : Pope Francis appoints Adolfo Tito Yllana as nuncio in Israel and Cyprus and as apostolic delegate in Jerusalem and Palestine .

Friday 4th June 2021

• Hamburg / Germany : In the final of the DHB Cup , TBV Lemgo beat MT Melsungen 28:24 and won the cup for the first time since 2002 .
• Munich / Germany : The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising announces that Archbishop Reinhard Cardinal Marx has offered Pope Francis his resignation as Archbishop. He justifies the step with the "catastrophe of sexual abuse by officials of the church in the past decades", for which he wants to assume joint responsibility.
• Oberhofen am Thunersee / Switzerland : The Swedish-British businessman Johan Eliasch is elected to succeed Gian Franco Kasper as President of the International Ski Federation .

Saturday 5th June 2021

• Linz / Austria : The prizes are awarded at the Crossing Europe film festival .
• Yagha / Burkina Faso : In a suspected early morning attack by jihadists on the post of Volunteers for the Defense of the Fatherland and then on civilians in Solhan , at least 160 people are killed as well as several houses and the Market burned down. The evening before, 13 civilians and one soldier had been killed and the village ransacked in an attack on the town of Tadyarat in the same province near the borders with Mali and Niger.
• Ulm / Germany : An arson attack is carried out on the synagogue in Ulm .

Sunday 6th June 2021

• Lima / Peru : runoff to the presidential election
• Ljubljana / Slovenia : Final game of the U-21 European Football Championship
• Magdeburg / Germany : State election in Saxony-Anhalt
• Riga / Latvia : Final game of the Ice Hockey World Championship
• Mexico City / Mexico : Parliamentary, regional and local elections

Monday 7 June 2021

• Berlin / Germany : The law to adapt copyright law to the requirements of the digital single market comes into force.
• Munich / Germany : The disaster in Bavaria in the wake of the Covid 19 pandemic has been lifted.
• Daharki / Pakistan : At least 63 people die in a railway accident and at least 150 are injured. The Millat Express derailed between the Raiti and Obaru train stations at night and several wagons fell onto the adjacent track. The Sir Syed Express , which was running in the opposite direction shortly afterwards , crashed into the derailed train.
• Vienna / Austria : Wolfgang Brandstetter resigns as judge at the Constitutional Court .
• International: As part of the police “ Operation Trojan Shield ” (also known as “Operation Ironside” in the region), which is directed against organized drug-related crime, searches are carried out in at least 16 countries, around 800 suspects are arrested and 15 tons of drugs are seized.

Tuesday, June 8th, 2021

• The Hague / Netherlands : The IRMCT confirmed by the UN war crimes tribunal against Ratko Mladic imposed life sentence.
• Graz / Austria : On the opening day of the Diagonale , Christine Ostermayer was awarded the Great Drama Prize for services to Austrian film culture.
• Vienna / Austria : Thomas Schmid resigns from the board of ÖBAG .
• San Francisco / USA : Due to a far-reaching failure of the cloud provider Fastly , prominent websites worldwide are not accessible for a few hours.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The union of German locomotive drivers announces warning strikes at Deutsche Bahn in the wake of failed collective bargaining .
• San Salvador / El Salvador : The legislative assembly of El Salvador passes a law with which the country will be the first in the world to recognize Bitcoin as another official means of payment with effect from September 7, 2021 .

Wednesday June 9, 2021

• Berlin / Germany : The public festival of the Berlinale opens with the film Der Mauritanier by director Kevin Macdonald .
• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag resolves to set up a foundation “Places of the German History of Democracy”.
• Calgary / Canada : The company TC Energy announces that it is giving up its controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline project, which is largely planned for US territory .
• Tel Aviv / Israel : Israel is the first country to ban the fur trade . Scientific and religious purposes (e.g. production and sale of the Schtreimel ) are excluded. The ban will come into force in six months.

Thursday June 10, 2021

• Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021
• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag elects Evelyn Zupke as the new federal commissioner for the victims of the SED dictatorship . The newly created institution is to replace the Stasi records authority , whose files and staff will be transferred to the Federal Archives .
• Milton Keynes / UK : The Austrian Albin Ouschan wins the World Cup in 9-Ball - Pool .
• Strasbourg / France : The European Parliament decides a failure to act against the European Commission initiate when the application of which came into force at the beginning of the EU rule of law mechanism (so-called Konditionalitätsmechanismus) further delaying. This mechanism is intended to counter violations by member states of the rule of law laid down in Article 2 of the EU Treaty by reducing funds from the Community budget if the violations threaten to misuse the funds. Poland and Hungary , accused of such violations and abuse, are suing the mechanism before the European Court of Justice because the EU has no power to define the rule of law and only "objective and concrete conditions" for the allocation of money from the EU budget "should apply. They had also threatened to block important EU budget decisions. In order to avert this, the heads of state and government of the other EU members had admitted to the two states that the EU Commission would wait for the outcome of the lawsuit before using the mechanism.
• Paris / France : President Emmanuel Macron announces that he will end the military operation Barkhane , led by France and which has been running since 2014 to combat Islamist terrorism in the Sahel , and gradually withdraw the majority of the 5,100 French soldiers currently stationed in Mali . Instead, France's participation in the European Takuba Task Force is to be increased. On the other hand, German Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr troops deployed as part of the UN military mission Minusma and the European training mission Mali at the end of May .
• London / United Kingdom : A group of more than 450 internationally active investors, who together represent $ 41 trillion in fixed assets, announced a public appeal coordinated by the UK Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change ahead of the 2021 G7 Summit and in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in 2021, called on governments around the world to immediately set more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets in their countries to protect the global climate and to take more energetic implementation measures so that warming can be limited to 1.5 degrees. Signatories include UK asset managers Aviva, HSBC Asset Management, Legal and General Investment Management and M&G, as well as Allianz Global Investors, Amundi, Axa, BNP Paribas, Nomura Asset Management, State Street Global Advisors, Fidelity International, Pimco, CalPERS and California State Teachers Retirement System. The world's two largest asset managers BlackRock and Vanguard as well as JP Morgan , Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon , all of them US companies , have not signed .

Friday June 11th 2021

• New York / United States : Pulitzer Prize winners announced
• Rome / Italy : Opening game of the European Football Championship 2021 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome

Saturday June 12th 2021

• Algiers / Algeria : parliamentary election

Sunday June 13th 2021

• Amstelveen / Netherlands : Finals of the European Field Hockey Championships for women and men
• Berlin / Germany : The prizes of the International Film Festival are awarded on Museum Island . Radu Jude was awarded the Golden Bear for best feature film for Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn .
• Brazil : Opening game of the Copa America
• Budapest / Hungary : Last day of the Judo World Cup
• Graz / Austria : At the end of the Diagonale , Hochwald is awarded as the best feature film.
• Paris / France : Last day of the French Open
• St Ives / United Kingdom : The G7 summit is coming to an end
• Switzerland : Federal referendum
• Jerusalem / Israel : The Israeli parliament, the Knesset , votes in a special session on their confidence in the proposed new Bennett-Lapid government , which is to replace Benjamin Netanyahu , who has been in power since 2009, and his cabinet . This is followed by the swearing-in of the ministers and the election of the new parliamentary president (“speaker”).

Monday 14 June 2021

• Naypyidaw / Myanmar : The trial against the head of government Aung San Suu Kyi , who was disempowered in a military coup, begins.
• Brussels / Belgium : NATO summit , for the first time with US President Joe Biden and for the last time with Chancellor Angela Merkel . The main topics are the course against the People's Republic of China, which has risen to become a military world power, threats from Russia, the NATO 2030 reform initiative , the revision of the strategic concept, the increase in the budget and the expansion of political consultations within the alliance. On the sidelines of the summit, Biden speaks bilaterally with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (because Turkey has bought the Russian S-400 air defense system , the US has imposed sanctions), Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Kyriakos Mitsotakis .

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

• Brussels / Belgium : US President Joe Biden meets with Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen (EU-US summit). In addition to the corona pandemic and climate change, the main topics are the settlement of the trade dispute between the EU and the USA (punitive tariffs), the establishment of a joint trade and technology council, also to prevent China from setting global standards for future technologies, and reforms of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and rules for the protection of data in transit in the United States.
• London / United Kingdom : Great Britain agrees with Australia on the main features of a free trade agreement (UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement).
• Osnabrück / Germany : The Islamkolleg Deutschland , the first state-sponsored institute for the training of Islamic clergy in Germany, is officially opened.

Wednesday June 16, 2021

• The Hague / Netherlands : Karim Khan succeeds Fatou Bensouda as chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court .
• Geneva / Switzerland : Summit between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin .

Thursday 17th June 2021

• International: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
• Belfast / United Kingdom : Paul Givan succeeds Arlene Foster as Co-Prime Minister of Northern Ireland .
• Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center / People's Republic of China : With a launch vehicle of the type Long March 2F / G launches Shenzhou 12 , the first manned mission of the Office of Human Spaceflight to Chinese space station
• Pfadi Winterthur wins the third playoff game and is Swiss handball champion for the tenth time .

Friday June 18, 2021

• Tehran / Iran : Ebrahim Raissi wins the presidential election .

Saturday 19th June 2021

• Linz / Austria : Beate Meinl-Reisinger is confirmed in office at the head of NEOS .
• Wiener Neustadt / Austria : Herbert Kickl is elected as the successor to Norbert Hofer as federal party leader of the FPÖ .

Sunday June 20th 2021

Nava Ebrahimi

• Yerevan / Armenia : parliamentary election
• Klagenfurt / Austria : The German author Nava Ebrahimi is awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her prose text Der Cousin .

Monday, June 21, 2021

• Berlin / Germany : Chancellor Angela Merkel opens the documentation center of the Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation in the Deutschlandhaus .
• Stockholm / Sweden : The red-green minority government Löfven II loses a vote of no confidence in the Reichstag , the Swedish parliament.
• Las Vegas / United States : Carl Nassib is the first active player in the National Football League to acknowledge his homosexuality.

Tuesday June 22, 2021

• Luxembourg : judgment of the ECJ on the direct liability of the operators of online platforms such as YouTube for users uploading copyright-infringing content. The plaintiff is the German music producer Frank Peterson .
• Erfurt / Germany : The Federal Labor Court decides in the final instance that the DHV - The Professional Union , is not subject to collective bargaining agreements , i.e. it is not allowed to conclude any collective agreements .

Wednesday June 23, 2021

• Berlin / Germany : The documentation center of the Escape, Expulsion, Reconciliation Foundation in the Deutschlandhaus opens to the general public.
• Berlin / Germany : At the second Libya conference to end the civil war , the participants agree to withdraw foreign troops.
• Paris / France : The traditional department store La Samaritaine , which has been closed since 2005, reopens after extensive renovation.
• Black Sea : An incident occurs off the coast of Crimea involving the British warship Defender and Russian forces.
• Southampton / United Kingdom : New Zealand wins the final of the first ICC World Test Championship against India with eight wickets .

Thursday June 24th 2021

• Berlin / Germany : According to the Independent Commission on Antiziganism , discrimination against Sinti and Roma is omnipresent in Germany.
• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag is tightening the Federal Climate Protection Act with the first amendment
• Redmond / United States : Microsoft introduces the new Windows 11 operating system .
• South Moravia / Czech Republic : A tornado devastates numerous villages around Hodonín .
• Surfside / United States : At least four people are killed in the partial collapse of a skyscraper , 159 are missing. By June 28, 11 dead had been recovered.

Friday June 25th 2021

• Minneapolis / United States : In the trial for the killing of George Floyd , the main defendant is sentenced to 22 years and six months in prison.
• Brussels / Belgium : The member states of the European Union and the European Parliament agree, two years later, on a reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the time frame 2023 to 2027.
• Würzburg / Germany : a 24-year-old Somali stabbed three women with a knife and seriously injured seven other people.
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Council rejects a ban on animal transports to 17 North African and Central Asian countries proposed by the Agriculture Committee .

Saturday, June 26th 2021

• Brest / France : Start of the 108th Tour de France
• Hong Kong / PR China : The Apple Daily newspaper, which is closely linked to the democracy movement , ceases its publication.
• London / United Kingdom : Health Minister Matt Hancock resigns, Sajid Javid is appointed as his successor .

Sunday June 27th 2021

• Germany : Last matchday of the handball Bundesliga , the THW Kiel champions
• Warsaw / Poland : Last day of the 39th European Table Tennis Championships
• Paris / France : Second round of regional elections
• London / United Kingdom : The human rights organization ALQST announces that the Saudi women's rights activists Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah have been released from custody.

Monday, June 28, 2021

• Barcelona / Spain : Mobile World Congress (until July 1st)
• London / United Kingdom : Start of the Wimbledon Championships (until July 11th)
• Vienna / Austria : The Concordia prizes are awarded in the Hofburg . The award was given to Dieter Bornemann from ORF and a trio from the magazine profil ( Robert Treichler , Emran Feroz and Sayed Jalal Shajjan ).
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The Agriculture Ministers of the European Union approve the agreement reached on June 25th between the EU member states and the European Parliament on the reform of the common agricultural policy .
• Paris / France : The highest administrative court in France, the Conseil d'État , confirms the ban on catching birds with limesticks .

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

• Camp Marmal / Afghanistan : The German military operation in Afghanistan as part of NATO's Resolute Support mission comes to an end.
• London / UK : in Wembley ends with a 0: 2 defeat against the English team in the second round of the Football Championship time Jogi Loew as coach of the German national team .

Wednesday June 30th 2021

• Germany : The so-called federal emergency brake is running out.
• Odense / Denmark : The new HC Andersens Hus building , based on a design by the Japanese architecture firm Kengo Kuma & Associates , is opened.

See also

• Nekrolog June 2021 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring memorial and action days in June
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in June

Web links

Commons : June 2021  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Largest ship in the Iranian Navy sunk. ZEIT Online, June 2, 2021, accessed on the same day.
2. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/srilanka-frachtschiff-chemischem-101.html
3. ↑ Armed cattle thieves killed 66 people in northwest Nigeria. Der Standard, June 6, 2021, accessed June 9, 2021.
4. ^ Archbishop Ordinariate Munich: Cardinal Marx offers Pope Francis resignation. Retrieved June 4, 2021 . 
5. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afrika/burkina-faso-angriff-103.html
6. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57368536
7. ^ Arson attack on Ulm synagogue , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 5, 2021.
8. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Pakistan: Number of dead rises to 62 after train accident.Retrieved on June 8, 2021 . 
9. ↑ https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/845939-deadly-train-crash-claims-30-lives-in-sindhs-ghotki
10. ↑ https://www.geo.tv/latest/353858-train-crash-kills-over-30-injures-at-least-50-in-sindhs-ghotki
11. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/organierte-kriminalitaet-anom-101.html
12. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/kriminalitaet/polizei-operation-mit-telefon-trick-weltweit-hunderte-festhaben-17378559.html
13. ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/operation-trojan-shield-fbi-lockte-verbrecher-in-die-chat-falle-mit-selbstgebauten-kryptohandys-a-5d3e35c1-1ddd-4a70-a161 -1d0add327e16-amp
14. ↑ Time still unclear: Train drivers' union GDL announces strike . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 8, 2021]).
15. ↑ https://rp-online.de/politik/deutschland/demokratiegeschichte-bundestag-beschliesst-gruendung-neuer-stiftung_aid-59189053
16. ↑ https://www.keystonexl.com/project-updates/updates-feed/2021/tc-energy-confirms-termination-of-keystone-xl-pipeline-project/
17. ↑ https://www.faz.net/agenturmmeldung/dpa/israel-verbietet-als-erstes-land-pelzhandel-17382137.html
18. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/eu-parlament-kommission-101.html
19. ↑ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-parliament-set-sue-european-commission-over-rule-of-law-inaction-2021-06-09/
20. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/rueckzug-aus-mali-frankreich-stoppt-operation-barkhane-17383308.html
21. ↑ https://www.iigcc.org
22. ↑ https://www.faz.net/agenturmmeldung/dpa/globale-investoren-endung-energischen-klimaschutz-17384352.html
23. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/10/investors-governments-end-support-fossil-fuels-assets-net-zero-targets
24. ↑ https://www.timesofisrael.com/swearing-in-of-lapid-bennett-govt-that-would-replace-netanyahu-set-for-sunday/
25. ↑ https://www.fr.de/politik/nato-tagt-erstmals-mit-neuem-us-praesidents-biden-zr-90801683.html
26. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/nato-gipfel-biden-russland-1.5320819!amp
27. ↑ https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/international-summit/2021/06/15/
28. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/biden-eu-gipfel-china-handelsstreit-1.5318440
29. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-agrees-historic-trade-deal-with-australia
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31. ↑ World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, accessed on June 15, 2021 . 
32. ↑ https://www.berlin.de/aktuelles/berlin/6692011-958092-merkel-eroeffnet-zentrum-flucht-vertreib.html
33. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/berlin-neues-dokumentationszentrum-zu-flucht-vertrieb.2932.de.html?drn:news_id=1271991
34. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/merkel-dokumentationszentrum-steinbach-berlin-1.5327832
35. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/eilmeldung-5675.html
36. ↑ [ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/carl-nassib-nfl-homosexualitaet-coming-out-1.5330870?reduced=true "I stand on the shoulders of giants" , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 23, 2021.
37. ↑ https://www.wbs-law.de/urheberrecht/bgh-verhandelt-haftet-youtube-fuer-urwerferrechtverlUNGEN-23462/
38. ↑ BAG press release
39. ↑ On June 23, 2021, the Documentation Center Escape, Expulsion, Reconciliation will open to the public. Press release of June 17, 2021 on the Foundation's website.
40. ↑ Foreign powers undertake to withdraw troops from Libya. Der Spiegel, June 23, 2021, accessed on June 26, 2021.
41. ↑ Sidharth Monga: Under the radar no more, New Zealand trump India to become Test world champions ( English ) Cricinfo. June 23, 2021. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
42. ↑ Antiziganism Commission calls for "catching up justice" , Stern, June 24, 2021.
43. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/klimaschutzgesetz-109.html
44. ↑ Tornado in South Moravia: Numerous volunteers on site, first damage estimates. Radio Prague International , June 28, 2021, accessed the following day.
45. ↑ House collapse in Surfside - four people are dead, 159 are missing. Der Spiegel, June 25, 2021, accessed on the same day.
46. ↑ https://orf.at/#/stories/3219099/
47. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/eu-agrarreform-119.html
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49. ↑ Hong Kong: The pro-democratic newspaper "Apple Daily" is discontinued. Handelsblatt , June 23, 2021, accessed on the same day.
50. ↑ Women's rights activists are apparently released from prison , Der Spiegel, June 27, 2021.
51. ↑ Concordia prizes go to Dieter Bornemann and three “Profil” employees. Der Standard , June 15, 2021, accessed the same day.
52. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/agrarreform-eu-staat-billigen-plaene.1939.de.html?drn:news_id=1274696
53. ↑ Protection des oiseaux: la chasse à la glu jugée définitivement illégale en France , Liberation, June 28, 2021.
54. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst-und-architektur/neues-hans-christian-andersen-museum-17413920.html
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