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Comparing the first semester of 2019 with the first semester of 2020, the value of imports of face masks into the European Union grew dramatically, from 800 million euro to […]
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s (ECDC) Covid-19 situation dashboard, first launched in March 2020, has been improved with a simplified design and enhanced functionality enabling users to […]
The European Commission published on September 18 a set of recommendations for a common Covid-19 testing approach in Europe, as a follow-up initiative of the 15 July Communication on Short-Term […]
A second contract between the European Commission and a pharmaceutical company entered into force on September 18 following the contact’s formal signature between Sanofi-GSK and the Commission, the EC said […]
The European Commission is to appoint a co-ordinator for anti-racism as part of an action plan against racism over the next five years. The Commission said in a statement on […]
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her first State of the Union speech to the European Parliament on September 16. These are the key points. The response to […]
The Council of the European Union agreed on September 11 to add 6.2 billion euro to the EU 2020 budget to address the impact of the Covid-19-crisis and to fund, […]
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has said that Ukraine has moved Bulgaria to its list of safe countries, which means that arrivals from Bulgaria will no longer need to present a negative […]
The European Commission reached a first agreement on August 14 with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to purchase a potential vaccine against Covid-19 as well as to donate to lower and middle […]
The European Commission and Unesco, as well as Twitter and the World Jewish Congress, are joining forces to raise awareness about conspiracy theories online. As part of this initiative, a […]
