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The UK’s minister for EU relations on Sunday accused the bloc of having “significantly undermined” post-Brexit measures in Northern Ireland with its threat to block COVID-19 vaccine exports. David Frost cited the EU’s move, which was quickly abandoned, in a...

Belgium’s Consultative Committee on Friday (5 March) announced minor relaxations to the COVID-19 measures. However, the curfew that has been in force since last October remained untouched. Recently, Wallonia decided to align its curfew with Flanders, midnight to 05.00, which...

Seven health professional associations “called with one voice” for all medical and paramedical personnel to be vaccinated to “stop the spread of the pandemic” in an op-ed published Sunday in the Journal du Dimanche. “Only 40% of Ehpad [ed. institutions...

Two German lawmakers over the weekend resigned from posts in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) parliamentary group over alleged kickback payments for state purchases of respiratory masks. The scandal comes only a week ahead of two regional elections....

Being vaccinated with the Russian vaccine Sputnik V is acceptable to approximately the same number of Slovaks as the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, according to a survey carried out by Focus Agency in February.  The survey showed that some 55% of the...

Pope Francis heard Muslim and Christian residents in the ruined Iraqi city of Mosul tell of their lives under brutal Islamic State rule, blessing their vow to rise up from ashes and promising them “fraternity is more durable than fratricide.”

The President of the European Foundation for Progressive Studies, Maria João Rodrigues, has said the Porto Social Summit pushed forward by Portugal’s EU Presidency, can be a "historic moment" of Europe's commitment to social rights.

The Spanish government is expected to approve a rescue package worth €11 billion by the end of the month in support of small and medium-sized businesses badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported.

Britain faces a tough challenge to retain global influence after its departure from the EU under a prime minister who has a well-known reputation for "lying", France's former ambassador to the UK told Agence France-Presse (AFP) in an interview.

The future carbon border adjustment mechanism is part of the "new own resources" for the EU budget and must be used to "combat global warming" across the world, Green MEP Yannick Jadot said on Wednesday (3 March). EURACTIV France reports.

A senior European Medicines Agency (EMA) official urged European Union members on Sunday (7 March) to refrain from granting national approvals for Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V while the agency reviews its safety and effectiveness.

The long-term renovations strategies that EU countries submitted last year to the European Commission are not in line with the bloc's objective of reaching climate-neutrality by 2050, according to fresh analysis due to be published this week.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's government is facing criticism for hiring consulting giant McKinsey to help it rewrite plans for spending the European Union funds aimed at rebuilding the economy.

Trouble is brewing in Renew Europe, the third-largest group in the European Parliament, pitting the old 'liberals and democrats' of ALDE against the group leadership and the French delegation of Emmanuel Macron's party, according to an insider source in the centrist group.

Businesses must put more women in managerial and technical leadership posts if they want to boost working conditions as well as the productivity of global supply chains during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Saturday (6 March) against Ethiopia continuing to fill its Nile dam, on his first visit to Sudan since the ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir nearly two years ago.

The EU will open talks with Washington Monday (8 March) to ensure its supply of US-made materials for coronavirus vaccines, a European source said Saturday, items currently under tough export restrictions.

A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland won a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday instigated by the same group that organised a 2009 ban on new minarets.

The European Commission said Monday (9 March) it was “surprised” that Belgium has extended a blanket travel ban to fight Covid-19, despite warning against limits on Europeans’ freedom of movement. “We were surprised to read in the press about the...

The EU and the US agreed on Friday (5 March) to suspend the tariffs mutually imposed in the context of the Boeing-Airbus dispute, while both sides try to reach a compromise on the subsidies given to their aircraft manufacturers.