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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told EU ambassadors in Ankara Tuesday he would "strengthen the rule of law based on human rights" in Turkey with new judicial appeals and electoral laws. He told French president Emmanuel Macron by video-link the same day that as "two strong Nato allies" they had "serious potential" to cooperate on Middle East security and counter-terrorism. The pro-EU overtures come after recent EU mini-sanctions on Turkey.

La Commission européenne s'attend à ce que des contrôles permanents à la frontière nord-irlandaise soient mis en place d'ici le milieu de l'année, malgré l'ordre du ministre de l'agriculture Gordon Lyons, du Parti démocrate unioniste (DUP), d'interrompre tout nouveau travail sur les installations de contrôle des frontières.

Megváltoztatja az oltási stratégiát az egészségügyi minisztérium. A változás értelmében a 60 és 70 év közötti lakosokat is be lehet oltani az AstraZeneca, a 70 év felettieket pedig a Pfizer és a Moderna vakcinájával.

America has sanctioned Russia for the attempted murder and jailing of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, in a show of return to transatlantic unity.

The EU’s ambassador to Venezuela left the South American country on Tuesday (2 March) after she was expelled last week over a diplomatic spat related to new sanctions. Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, who is Portuguese, left Venezuela aboard a Turkish Airlines...

Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz said his country and Denmark plan to stop relying solely on the European Union for coronavirus jabs, Deutsche Welle reports. Kurz said both countries plan to work with Israel to produce second-generation vaccines. While Israel has vaccinated a large part of its population, the EU has faced criticism for its slow vaccine rollout and slow approval of the vaccines themselves.

Judges applying to join Poland's Supreme Court should have the right to appeal against the opinions of a body reviewing candidates, the EU's top court said Tuesday, part of an ongoing rift between the EU and Warsaw. The EU court also said that amendments to the law on the National Council of the Judiciary, which in effect remove judicial review of its decisions, including judges' appointments, could infringe EU law.

The European Commission on Tuesday launched an investigation into whether German plans to compensate lignite-fired power plants for being phased out earlier than foreseen are aligned with EU state aid rules. Under the German coal phase-out law, coal will have to end by 2038. But Germany has agreed to pay €4.35bn to the main producers of lignite-fired electricity for the early closure of power plants.

France will allow people under 75 with existing health problems to get the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, the health minister said, changing the country's earlier stance that the vaccine should be for the under-65s only, Reuters reports. France hopes to speed up its vaccination campaign. As of Saturday, 4.55 million people had received at least one shot of vaccine, compared to 6.17 million in Germany and up to 20.9 million in Britain.

Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and other high-ranking Saudi officials have been accused of committing crimes against humanity in a criminal complaint filed in Germany by Reporters without Borders (RSF), the press freedom group, The Guardian writes. The complaint focusses on the "widespread and systematic" persecution of journalists in Saudi Arabia, including the arbitrary detention of 34 journalists there and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

The special committee on foreign interference was created in June with the aim of assessing the foreign threat to European democracy - and identify possible tools to fight it.

Earlier this month the European Parliament set up a permanent probe into the EU's border agency Frontex. Now that the Frontex boss is set for his first grilling, MEPs have decided to keep the public in the dark.

The Nordic electricity market is an example of successful market integration plus climate action, as the share of sustainable energy keeps growing, the European Commission said. However, the decarbonisation of the transport sector remains a challenge.

The EU is driving a hard "EU-first" policy on vaccines and almost nobody talks about it. Maybe because there is a lot of sugar-coating put on a hard and ruthless policy.

These are dark times in Belarus, with the government tightening the screws like never before. They are preparing for spring just as much as the opponents of the regime are.

The United States on Tuesday (2 March) imposed sanctions to punish Russia for what it described as Moscow’s attempt to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent last year, in President Joe Biden’s most direct challenge yet to...

Online talent platforms have great potential to increase labour markets participation but how can we ensure that they offer decent working conditions? The European private employment services sector reflects on the role for the European Union given the diversity of national situations and the existing regulatory frameworks.

A Szlovák Hidrometeorológiai Intézet (SHMÚ) előrejelzése szerint napos, meleg idő vár ránk szerdán. A reggeli órákban az alacsonyabban fekvő területeken elvétve köd is kialakulhat.

Wegen der Corona-Krise werden immer mehr Sachen digital erledigt. Dabei geht aber die Ethik vergessen.

Ein völlig überfüllter SUV kollidiert in Südkalifornien mit einem Lkw. Bei dem Unfall sterben mindestens 13 Menschen. In dem SUV sassen 25 Menschen.