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EU records 450,000 excess deaths between March and November

Countries in the European Union recorded over 450,000 excess deaths between March and November 2020, compared to the same period in the past four years, according to data released on Tuesday. The data "gives a...

EU court rejects Ryanair lawsuit against airline state aid

Ryanair on Wednesday lost a legal fight in the European Union's second court against state aid being granted to pandemic-hit rivals Air France and Sweden 's SAS through national schemes. Judges at the EU's General Court...

EU new car registrations hit record low in January

New car sales in the European Union fell steeply in January, hitting a record low for the month as coronavirus-related restrictions weighed, according to data published Wednesday. Across the EU, new car registrations--a reflection of...

Pfizer and BioNTech to Supply the European Union with 200 Million Additional Doses of COMIRNATY®

Pfizer and BioNTech to Supply the European Union with 200 Million Additional Doses of COMIRNATY® - EU Politics Today - EIN Presswire ...

Uber calls for new EU rules to regulate ‘gig economy’ apps

Uber Technologies Inc. today called on European Union officials to implement new rules to regulate “gig economy” platforms such as its ride-hailing and food delivery apps. The company also published a lengthy paper outlining its...

France calls for EU to give countries more power to punish big tech

France is reportedly pushing to expand regulations that would give European Union member states more power to punish large tech companies’ bad behavior. The changes France wants to see concern the Digital Services Act, proposed legislation...

EU to launch study programme for COVID-19 variants

PARIS, Feb 15: The European Union will this week kick off a new programme to study mutations in the COVID-19 virus, in a bid to prepare for the next generation of vaccines that...

EU Sizes Up Impact Of New UK Free Trade Deal

by Jason Gorringe, Tax-News.com, London <h3>15 February 2021</h3> The European Union has released its Winter 2021 Economic Forecast, which says that Brexit will dent UK economic growth considerably, and more than for the European...

Donohoe: EU Covid fund will aid green and digital transformation in Ireland

Money from the European Union’s Covid-19 recovery fund will be spent on a green and digital transformation in Ireland, according to the Finance Minister. Ministers have been taking submissions on how to spend Ireland’s €853...

China becomes EU’s biggest trade partner in 2020

BRUSSELS, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- China became the main trade partner of the European Union (EU) in 2020, with exports and imports both increasing despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Eurostat said on Monday. According to the...

EU calls for bold measures to control deteriorating economic situation in Sudan

February 15, 2021 (KHARTOUM) - European Union diplomats in Khartoum urged the Sudanese government to take bold reforms to halt the deteriorating economic situation in the country. Hamdok government had failed to stop the collapse...

EU New Pact on Migration Unable to Improve Humanitarian Situation in Greece, Oxfam Says

In September, the European Commission proposed a new Pact on Migration and Asylum to improve the EU migration policies. The new regulation is designed to implement efficient border procedures and oblige all the EU...

China overtakes US as EU’s biggest trading partner

BRUSSELS: China last year overtook the United States as the EU’s biggest trading partner, the EU statistics agency Eurostat said on Monday. Britain meanwhile, which is no longer part of the European Union, was the...

U.S. wine importers are now paying the price for Trump administration’s trade tiff with European Union

Wine vendors battling to survive the coronavirus pandemic are now also getting slammed by the U.S.’s fight with the European Union over aircraft subsidies. Mom-and-pop wine importers are facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in...

France: EIB provides €50 million to support Forsee Power’s growth

The EIB is providing €50 million to Forsee Power to help create a European battery champion. This second loan – following an initial €20 million granted in late 2017 under the Juncker Plan – will finance the...

UK Foreign Secretary Raab Takes Long-Term Brexit View as EU Erects Obstacles to Trade

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has encouraged businesses hit by post-Brexit red tape to take an optimistic "10-year view" of Brexit. Interviewed by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Raab insisted the government was “doing a huge...

EU to fast-track jabs against virus variants

BERLIN: The European Union has agreed to fast-track approvals of vaccines updated to target coronavirus variants, the bloc’s health commissioner said Sunday, following criticism of the EU’s sluggish vaccine drive. “We looked at...

France: OSE Immunotherapeutics enters a loan agreement of up to €25 million with the EIB

This loan will further support the progress and expansion of OSE Immunotherapeutics’ lead clinical development programs in diseases with high unmet medical needs, Divided into three tranches including two tranches of €10 million each and...

Qatar, UN & EU Team Up to Build Gas Line to Gaza from Israel

Photo Credit: Doha Information Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar ...

Aspen’s offer to cut prices of cancer drugs allows it to avoid EU fine

Brussels — Aspen Pharmacare warded off a possible hefty EU antitrust fine after regulators accepted the pharmaceutical company’s offer to cut cancer drug prices in Europe by about two-thirds, in a landmark case aimed...

Western Sahara: Senior Belgian Politicians Call on EU to Support Morocco’s Position

Rabat – Two senior Belgian politicians are calling on the European Union to support Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara. Louis Michel, the former Belgium’s Foreign Minister and Jacques Brotchi, the  Honorary president of the...

Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski defy the EU even as their countries profit from it

Dozens of newspapers, TV stations and websites blank or black: This was what the national strike of private media in Poland protesting a sudden and crippling government tax on advertising looked like on Feb. 10. In Hungary...

Leave.EU donor Arron Banks loses data breach appeal

The Leave.EU campaign and the insurance company owned by the political group’s key financial backer, Arron Banks, have lost an appeal against £105,000 of fines for data protection violations in the wake of the...
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