EC’s 98.4B euro SURE instrument ‘protected jobs and incomes’ during pandemic – report
The European Commission’s (EC) SURE instrument of close to 100 billion euro, designed to protect jobs and incomes affected by
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Religious minority asylum-seekers detained at Turkish-Bulgarian border say they were beaten, tortured
Thirty of 104 members of religious minority group Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light who had presented themselves at the
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European Parliament endorses plan to provide more ammunition for Ukraine
The European Parliament voted on June 1 to approve a draft bill to increase European production of ammunition and missiles,
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EU ministers approve EU’s accession to Istanbul Convention
The Council of the European Union approved on June 1 the EU’s accession to the Convention on preventing and combating
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ECRI report: Russian leaders’ false narrative that Ukrainian government are neo-Nazis is absurd
Russian leaders’ false narrative, from the highest political level, describing the democratically elected Ukrainian government and Ukrainians who did not
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Europol: 28 arrested for smuggling migrants via Bulgaria and Romania
Twenty-eight people were arrested following an investigation initiated by Romanian Border Police into a criminal organisation smuggled irregular migrants from
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EC deal with BioNTech-Pfizer on Covid-19 vaccines allows reduced purchases by EU countries
The European Commission (EC) announced on May 26 that it had reached an agreement with BioNTech-Pfizer on adapting the existing
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EC pays further 1.5B euro in macro-financial assistance to Ukraine
The European Commission (EC) made on May 23 a fourth payment of 1.5 billion euro under the Macro-financial Assistance (MFA)+ package for Ukraine, worth up to 18
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Anti-money laundering: EC adds South Africa, Nigeria to list of high-risk third-country jurisdictions
The European Commission (EC) said that it had on May 17 updated the list of high-risk third-country jurisdictions presenting strategic deficiencies in
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