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Three months ago, a violent transfer of power took place in Kyrgyzstan. Now a new president has been elected: according to the country's media, Sadyr Japarov, who took power after the unrest in October, won almost 80 percent of the vote. Commentators examine whether this means the end of the democratic progress made in recent years - or whether the president has bigger problems to deal with for the time being.

Austria's Minister of Labour and Family Affairs Christine Aschbacher has resigned after just under a year in office. The politician, who belongs to the governing ÖVP party, is facing allegations that parts of her doctoral thesis submitted to the Technical University of Bratislava in 2020 were plagiarised. Observers link the affair to Austria's penchant for academic titles.

Industrial heat uses masses of energy and emits large volumes of CO2 – here’s how its impact on the planet can be reduced. Marco Baresi is the Institutional Affairs Director of Turboden. Heat. It’s the single largest energy use in...

The EU issued a declaration reiterating its strong commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and supporting intensive diplomacy with the goal of facilitating a US return to the JCPoA and Iran's return to full JCPoA implementation.

Le président du Conseil européen Charles Michel est intervenu au One Planet Summit Biodiversité lors de la session 4 "Protéger les forêts tropicales, les espèces et la santé humaine".

The Council has extended the mandate of EUCAP Sahel Mali until 31 January 2023 with an allocated budget of over €89 million.

Weekly schedule of President Charles Michel 11-17 January 2021

The EU has designated 2021 as the European Year of Rail to promote the use of trains as a safe and sustainable transport. Find out more.

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The EU has designated 2021 as the European Year of Rail to promote the use of trains as a safe and sustainable transport. Find out more.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

AstraZeneca and Oxford University filed a formal bid for temporary authorisation of their coronavirus vaccine, the European Medicines Agency said on Tuesday. A decision could come by 29 January, the Amsterdam-based regulator added. "An opinion on the marketing authorisation could be issued by 29 January, provided that the data submitted on the quality, safety and efficacy of the vaccine are sufficiently robust and complete," the agency said.

"Freedom of the media as well as an effective and independent judiciary are central elements of our relations with Ukraine," Peter Stano, the EU foreign service spokesman, said Tuesday following new developments in the trial, in Kiev, of the alleged killers of journalist Pavel Sheremet in 2016. The EU has "repeatedly called on the Ukrainian authorities" to ensure "those responsible for this atrocity [were] brought to justice", Stano said.