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It will be difficult to expect any further relaxation of measures after 15 March considering that numbers of new coronavirus cases are on the rise, Interior Minister and head of the national COVID-19 response team, Davor Božinović, has said. “At...

Some of Europe's largest industry groups have asked European Union lawmakers to change their position on the bloc's planned carbon border policy, in a last-minute lobbying push ahead of a vote on Tuesday (9 March), emails seen by Reuters show.

The Bulgarian Socialist Party has informed the European Parliament and the Council of Europe on Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s recent election campaign, which has seen him travelling throughout the country and promoting his government’s success while speaking openly against the...

Slovakia’s finance ministry has finished the draft of the country’s national recovery plan, which is now to be reviewed by the interdepartmental comments procedure, Finance Minister Eduard Heger has confirmed. The national recovery plan focuses on five priority areas, which...

Following the recent restriction of women’s rights in Poland, including the near-total ban on abortion that took effect in January, this year’s Women’s Day was marked with protests and demonstrations across the entire country. The protests focused not only on...

“Unfortunately, what we are seeing is that Brussels not only supports illegal migration but also the increase in drug use, or at least it wants to make it easier since cannabis has recently been reclassified at the UN as a...

The softening of EU fiscal rules to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on Spanish businesses may lead to a massive deficit in two years time if not responsibly handled by the government, an industry representative has warned in an interview, EURACTIV's partner EuroEFE reports.

Greece, Cyprus, and Israel have signed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of an underwater power cable that will run through the Mediterranean seabed and act as an emergency back-up power source. The cost of the power cable...

Softening fiscal rules to mitigate the effects COVID-19 has had on the Spanish business sector may mean “facing a €70 billion hole in 2023”, Antonio Garamendi, head of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE), warned in an exclusive online...

Irish President Micheal D Higgins signed the Health Act 2021 into law on Sunday, stating that travellers from 20 high-risk COVID-19 countries would have to quarantine in a designated hotel for 14 days when arriving in the State of Ireland. ...

US climate change envoy John Kerry urged on Monday the world’s top 20 carbon emitters, which currently account for over 80% of total emissions, to reduce their CO2 footprint immediately, following talks with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Kerry described...

La Première ministre néo-zélandaise Jacinda Ardern, la vice-présidente américaine Kamala Harris et la présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen se sont tour à tour adressées au Parlement européen à l’occasion de la Journée internationale des droits des femmes.

Although the four Visegrad countries pledged to contribute a collective €3 million (€750 million each) to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines at a global conference organised by the European Commission and the World Health Organisation in May 2020, the...

Romániában is megjelent a koronavírus brazil mutációja – jelentette be hétfőn a közegészségügyi intézet (INSP), néhány nappal azután, hogy egy egészségügyi szolgáltató kimutatta a dél-afrikai vírusvariánst is két romániai páciensnél.

Galenica hat dank eines Sondereffekts im Coronajahr 2020 einen Gewinnsprung verzeichnet. Für 2021 hat sich der Apotheken- und Gesundheitskonzern weiteres Wachstum zum Ziel gesetzt, obwohl mit einem anhaltend schwierigen ersten Semester zu rechnen sei.

Für Frauen bleibt die Scheidung trotz Ausgleichsmassnahmen ein grosses Vorsorgerisiko. Zu diesem Schluss kommt eine neue Studie der Lebensversichererin Swiss Life. Gerade ein starker Rückzug vom Arbeitsmarkt wirke lange nach der Scheidung nach.

Covid-19 vaccination efforts are gathering steam in Africa, while the EU said it was working to secure a big increase in vaccine supplies to improve its slow roll-out, and the United States denounced what it called a Russian disinformation campaign.

Le gouvernement espagnol devrait approuver un plan de sauvetage de 11 milliards d’euros d’ici à la fin du mois pour soutenir les petites et moyennes entreprises sévèrement touchées par la pandémie de Covid-19. Un article de notre partenaire Euroefe.

La Commission européenne va tenter d’atténuer les risques liés à la possession de données de l’UE par des pays tiers en définissant une série d’objectifs pour 2030 qui aideront le bloc à se procurer des technologies de traitement des données...

La présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen a dit lundi s’attendre à une forte progression des livraisons de vaccins dans l’UE dès avril et prévenu que d’autres pays pourraient bloquer des exportations comme l’a fait l’Italie pour AstraZeneca.