Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive of the sovereign wealth fund that backed development of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, announced Monday that companies in Italy, Spain, France, and Germany have made agreements to produce the vaccine “once approval is granted” by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The European Union is launching legal action against the United Kingdom over its efforts to protect trade between the British mainland and Northern Ireland, vindicating critics of Boris Johnson’s deals with the bloc who said they ensured Brexit was by no means “done”.
The move follows reports of blood clots in some recipients, though the EU regulator has said there is no evidence the shot is to blame.
Members of the European Parliament are welcoming plans from the European Commission to make email, messaging, and chat providers search through users’ private conversations and report “illegal material”, according to Patrick Breyer MEP.
A free trade agreement between the United States and the UK is unlikely to be signed until at least 2024, as the Biden administration is set to focus on China and domestic issues, American sources told a British broadsheet.
BERLIN (AP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “centre-right” party was headed for clear defeats in two German state elections on Sunday at the hands of popular governors from parties further to the left, projections showed — six months before a national vote that will determine who succeeds the country’s longtime leader.
The Greek Ministry of Citizen Protection has revealed that there have been at least 101 attacks with incendiary and explosive devices, vandalism attacks, and incidents of property damage by supporters of Greek far-left terrorist Dimitris Koufontinas.
(AFP) — The European Union was faced with another setback in its coronavirus vaccination programme after AstraZeneca announced a shortfall, as countries across the world tried to step up their Covid-19 immunisation drives.
Polish MEP Ryszard Legutko, of the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party, said the EU Parliament voting to make the bloc an “LGBTIQ freedom zone” was “absurd.”
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — U.S. and UK military officers were among his victims before his armed group was dismantled in 2002 and he turned himself in.
Slovakian Health Minister Marek Krajci was forced to resign on Thursday amid pressure from the country’s four-party coalition government, which threatened to disband last month in protest of his order of two million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V, a Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate.
A poll has revealed that national-conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni has become the most popular party leader in the country.
Germany´s health minister says the country should prepare for “several very challenging weeks” amid a rise in coronavirus cases.
The EU was forced to admit that the United Kingdom had not imposed a vaccine export ban, after earlier accusing the British government of blocking exports.
Vaccine passport proponent and ardent Remainer Tony Blair has blamed Brexit for the EU’s vaccine woes, claiming that had not Britain left, the bloc would not be “ten weeks behind” in inoculating hundreds of millions of people.
The EU has threatened to blockade more supplies of coronavirus vaccines, as the bloc continues to fall behind other major western powers.
The CEO of an American data privacy firm said that it will be impossible for governments to keep personal health data private when they introduce coronavirus vaccine passports and that such a system could lead to “algorithmic discrimination”. In an
Belgian police launched an operation of unprecedented scale against organized crime on Tuesday, according to the country’s federal prosecutor´s office.
Brexit Britain has helped Australia source vaccines after the European Union backed Italy’s seizure of doses bound for Down Under.
Just over one per cent of failed asylum seekers were returned to European Union countries from Britain last year under the bloc’s resettlement scheme, which was still in effect until the first of January. In the year leading up to
Norway saw a 19% drop in marriages in 2020 compared to the previous year, which had already seen the lowest figure since 1927.
The European Commission plans to ask the United States to allow the export of millions of U.S.-made doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University to the bloc — somewhat ironically, given its approval of Italy seizing EU-made AstraZeneca doses bound for Australia.
BERLIN (AP) – A lawmaker with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party said Sunday he will give up his seat in parliament and leave politics after it emerged that his company profited from deals to procure masks early in the pandemic — drawing sharp criticism in an election year.
Brexit Britain has received a boost after negotiations the suspension of U.S. tariffs on key exports such as Scotch whisky, cashmere, cheese, pork, and machinery.
MILAN (AP) — The virus swept through a nursery school and an adjacent elementary school in the Milan suburb of Bollate with amazing speed. In a matter of just days, 45 children and 14 staff members had tested positive.
Swedish police in the city of Uppsala detained a reporter from the Hungarian television station HÍRTV this week for two hours after he filmed a report from in front of a local police station.
BRUSSELS (AP) – Europe’s vaccine solidarity got a shot in the arm Friday as France rallied to support Italy, saying it could follow suit in blocking exports of coronavirus vaccines outside the European Union if necessary to enforce its own contracts with drugs manufacturers.
An Iraqi migrant doctor in the French commune of Bourges who has been accused of sexual assault by a patient has alleged a “racist conspiracy” against him.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece will introduce an increase in military service for conscripts serving in the army from nine to 12 months, starting in May, as part of a program to boost the armed forces amid tension with regional rival Turkey.
Australia’s finance minister has suggested that a “desperate” European Union is “tear[ing] up the rule book” after the European Commission backed Italy’s request to block a shipment of coronavirus vaccines.
BRUSSELS (AP) – An inquiry into claims that the European Union’s border and coast guard agency was involved in illegally pushing back migrants has found no link to Frontex in any of the incidents but has been unable to establish what happened in five cases, according to the official report into the allegations.
Fidesz, the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has left the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament after the group voted to allow members to strip the privileges of other members in a 2/3 vote.
The European Commission has reportedly authorised the Italian government to block a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines destined for Australia, using for the first time an export control system the EU created if it deemed a drugs company had failed to deliver its orders to the European Union.
MOSCOW (AP) – The European Medicines Agency said it has started a rolling review of Sputnik V, many months after the vaccine was first approved for use in Russia and after dozens of countries around the world have authorized it.
The majority of Germans have said that the European Union has mishandled the rollout of vaccines — a shock result for citizens from the historically pro-EU member state.
As warmer and calmer weather on the Mediterranean sea approaches, the new Italian government is conflicted on illegal immigration as Matteo Salvini’s ally becomes undersecretary to the interior minister.
BERLIN — Austria’s leader says his country and Denmark intend to stop relying solely on the European Union for coronavirus vaccines and will work with Israel to produce second-generation vaccines.
The EU will introduce legislation to introduce a vaccine passport this month, EU President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Monday.
Police and military forces in the Czech Republic set up 500 checkpoints across the country, significantly limiting free movement.
Companies that sell refrigerators, washers, and TVs in the EU will need to ensure those appliances can be repaired for up to 10 years.
