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The government has proposed additional aid for businesses and the most vulnerable to shield them from rising prices as the country grapples with the worst pandemic wave so far. The self-employed and farmers will be partly compensated for income lost...

RTL television reporter Goran Latković was attacked during a protest against mandatory COVID-19 certificates in Zagreb on Saturday while covering the event. The Croatian Journalists Association (HND) said in a statement that, according to Latković’s account, two unidentified persons attacked...

This year, the end of December will not only mark the Holiday rush - at least for the healthcare policy specialists. Instead of rushing to the Christmas markets, most of them will be busy finalising their contributions to the revision of the general pharmaceutical legislation.

The new governing coalition is ready, all it needs is the president’s blessing and a prime minister. The centre-right parties PNL and UDMR have reached an agreement with the socialist PSD to form the new government, but the prime minister’s...

“For me, mandatory vaccination for people over 65 or 60 would be ideal. It depends on the experts. I think that even 50+ would make sense, but let us wait what the experts say,” said Prime Minister Eduard Heger, with...

European Commission vice-president Maroš Šefčovič urged Britain on Sunday (21 November) to make a "big move" to break months of deadlock over post-Brexit arrangements in Northern Ireland that has threatened a trade war.

Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis has asked once again for the return of the Parthenon marbles in an article published in the Daily Mail on Sunday. ​“​Only a handful of Britain’s past Prime Ministers have studied classics at university. Fewer still would...

Solar Foods, a startup born in 2017 out of the research project by VTT Technical Research Centre and LUT University in Eastern Finland, has come up with a method to produce sustainable and pure single-cell protein from carbon dioxide and...

Farmers from across Ireland gathered on Sunday to protest against the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), arriving in the capital in a fleet of tractors. The CAP is nearing the end of its legislative journey at EU level, but many...

Georgia on Saturday (20 November) moved jailed opposition leader and ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili to a military hospital from a prison clinic after doctors warned he risked death following a 50-day hunger strike.

Around 40,000 people poured onto the streets of Vienna to protest against the total lockdown that is to be introduced from Monday, as well as the new measures that will make vaccines mandatory from February 2022. On Friday, the Austrian...

Maritime Minister Annick Girardin told fishermen during a trip to northern France that the executive will “not give up at all” in the dispute over fishing licences with the British government. A few days earlier, Girardin had announced “fleet exit...

With the recent surge in COVID-19 cases and hospital beds being in increasingly short supply, multiple leading German politicians are speaking out in favour of making vaccines mandatory – something which was initially considered taboo. “I believe that in the...

Rumen Radev won a second presidential term in a runoff against GERB-backed candidate Anastas Gerdjikov with a very low turnout of just over 30%. According to Gallup International Balkan data from exit polls, Radev received 65.8% of the vote against 31.8% for...

There is a possibility that migrants from Afghanistan could benefit from the next wave of the migrant crisis, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Sunday, speaking alongside Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingride Šimonyte. In a new wave of diplomatic moves,...

It is currently impossible to check peoples’ COVID passes on public transport because there is not enough staff to carry out such a task, trade unions in Rome have said. They complained that the Italian government did not support new...

Welcome to EURACTIV’s Global Europe Brief, your weekly update on the EU from a global perspective. You can subscribe to receive our newsletter here. In this week’s edition: Central Asia’s water woes, Belarus in crisis mode, and Ukraine military build-up. Most...

President Charles Michel of the European Council held phone calls on 19 November with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia.

The Council adopted a decision establishing a €40 million assistance measure under the European Peace Facility (EPF) in support of the Republic of Mozambique.

Weekly schedule of President Charles Michel 22– 28 November 2021