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"Nous constatons que Bruxelles soutient non seulement l'immigration illégale mais aussi l'augmentation de la consommation de drogue, ou du moins veut la rendre plus facile", a déclaré le ministre hongrois des affaires étrangères.

Russia has offered to supply Finland with the technology to produce its Sputnik V vaccine,  Tass news agency reported, in what observers fear is a strategic manoeuvre with political and commercial motives.

Europe's steel, chemicals, cement, and fertiliser lobbies have signed an email to MEPs urging them to keep CO2-emissions perks, despite an upcoming carbon-border policy, Reuters reports. The EU is preparing to tax CO2-causing importers from June to protect European firms from global competitors with lax climate policies. At the same time, it aims to cut CO2-emissions allowances for EU firms, to avoid giving them 'double protection', but industry wants both.

Italy's coronavirus death toll passed the 100,000 mark on Monday and prime minister Mario Draghi warned that the situation was worsening again with a jump in hospitalisations, Reuters reports. Italy is the seventh country in the world to reach the bleak milestone, following the United States, Brazil, Mexico, India, Russia, and Britain. Infections rose 23 percent last week by comparison with the week before.

Hacker-Angriffe und Desinformations-Kampagnen könnten die Bundestagswahl beeinflussen, warnen Experten. Erste Vorfälle zeigen: Die Bedrohung ist real. EURACTIV’s Medienpartner Deutsche Welle berichtet. Jedes Mal, wenn Delegierte online zur Wahl schritten, nahmen die Angriffe zu. Als die CDU im Januar im Netz...

Momentum is growing among policymakers, civil society and the public in the call to hold businesses accountable for their impacts on human rights and the environment through binding EU laws. Now eyes are on the European Commission to follow through with tangible and effective legislation, writes Jill McArdle.

Kerry, qui a été nommé en janvier par le président Biden, se rendra mardi à Paris et à Bruxelles pour s'entretenir avec le président français Emmanuel Macron et d'autres dirigeants européens.

The commission president also backed Italy's recent decision to block a shipment of AstraZeneca's vaccine to Australia, for the first time using a new EU rule on exports.

Eleinte derűs, vagy enyhén felhős időjárás várható – áll a Szlovák Hidrometeorológiai Intézet (SHMÚ) keddi előrejelzésében. Reggel elvétve alacsony szintű rétegfelhőzet is előfordulhat. Napközben nyugat felől megnövekszik a felhőzet és elvétve gyenge csapadék is eshet.

Nikolas Löbel, a German MP from the ruling 'CDU' party, has resigned his seat and left the party, after it emerged his firm earned €250,000 from government purchases of masks. Georg Nüsslein, an MP from the CDU's sister party, the 'CSU', has also left his party, but not his seat, in a similar affair. The mini-scandals come ahead of regional elections in two German states, amid falling CDU/CSU popularity.

EU-mediated talks between Kosovo and Serbia on normalising relations are "the only path to Europe" for either of the parties, the EU foreign service said Monday - the 10-year anniversary of the talks' launch. "In our public opinion, the significance of the dialogue is at sixth, seventh place," Kosovo's likely new PM Albin Kurti said last week, adding that he wanted to amend the constitution to enable unification with Albania.

Turkish ex-PM Ahmet Davutoğlu, now in opposition, has told Greek newspaper Ekathimerini that president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's authoritarian style was "pulling Turkey away from the European model of democracy and administration". "Institutional contacts and long-term strategy have been replaced by personal contacts. If Erdoğan's relations with [Russian president Vladimir] Putin are good, then relations with Russia are also good. It was the same with [ex-US president Donald] Trump," Davutoğlu said.

The EU is to sanction firms "generating revenue for, or providing financial support to, the Myanmar Armed Forces", according to an internal document seen by Reuters. Two likely targets, diplomats said, are Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited and Myanmar Economic Corporation - conglomerates in the mining, manufacturing, food, beverages, hotels, telecoms, and banking sectors. Foreign ministers are to discuss the moves on 22 March in response to murders of anti-coup protesters.

The European Banking Authority (EBA), an EU regulator in Amsterdam, has said its email servers were accessed by hackers. "The EBA email infrastructure has been secured and our analyses suggest that no data extraction has been performed and we have no indication to think the breach has gone beyond our email servers," it said Monday. US tech firm Microsoft, which handles EBA mail, earlier linked the attack to China.

Ethiopia's war is being fought not just in a blackout, but also in a fog of lies, and Ethiopia's envoy to the EU is making matters worse.

The European Commission has expressed surprise over the Belgian government's decision to extend the ban on non-essential travel, stressing that "all options" are on the table to ensure free movement across the bloc.

Frontex is invoking EU interception rules, plus a European Court of Human Rights case against Spain, as precedents to allow authorities to turn back migrants in boats in the Aegean Sea. But legal analysis by the EU Commission says otherwise.

The US has enough doses to fully-vaccinate the region twice while other countries have ordered enough doses to vaccinate their populations four or five times over, which many have condemned as "vaccine hoarding", writes the speaker of the Tunisian parliament.

EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen, US-Vizepräsidentin Kamala Harris und Neuseelands Premierministerin Jacinda Ardern haben vor den Folgen der Corona-Pandemie für Frauenrechte weltweit gewarnt. Von der Leyen unterstrich bei einer Rede zum Weltfrauentag am Montag im Brüsseler EU-Parlament die Leistung von...

Regularly seen riding his bike to work, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is hoping voters add to his 10 years in the saddle next week.