Lidl has surpassed for the first time its rival and long-standing leader on the Slovak market, British supermarket chain Tesco, recently released financial statements from both companies for last year have confirmed. News broke after both companies released their 2020...
Czech healthcare workers have thrown away more than 14,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the past month as interest in the vaccine has continued to dwindle. AstraZeneca was distributed to general practitioners but patients are not interested in getting...
Allies of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, as well as opposition politicians, have reacted strongly to the European Commission’s demand that the Court of Justice in Luxembourg impose daily financial penalty measures on Warsaw as the government is...
Intel Corp on Tuesday (7 September) said it could invest as much as €80 billion in Europe over the next decade to boost the region's chip capacity and will open up its semiconductor plant in Ireland for automakers.
The German Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) have sunk below 20% approval among voters for the first time in Germany’s postwar history, according to a Forsa poll published on Tuesday. The Social Democrats (SPD), led by the vice-chancellor and finance minister, Olaf Scholz, are...
Italy is verifying the conditions, methods and timing for an extraordinary summit of the G20 countries dedicated to Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told parliament in a speech on Monday, following his return from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Qatar....
National flag carrier TAP is planning to put its restructuring plan into operation in October, its CEO, Christine Ourmières-Widener, said in an interview published in the company’s internal newsletter. Explaining that she prefers to talk about a “transformation” rather than...
The socialist government is working on measures as part of the draft state budget for 2022 to add extra personal income tax brackets between €10,000 and €20,000 of annual income and between €36,000 and €80,000, Prime Minister António Costa has...
Belgium and the Netherlands have become major hubs for cocaine trafficking into Europe, overtaking Spain as the primary smuggling route, the EU's policing agency said Tuesday (7 September).
The Greek public opinion was shocked when a doctor unveiled that anti-vaxxers have refused to accept blood from vaccinated people in order not to be “poisoned”. Meanwhile, the Greek government has been alarmed after media reports revealed several cases of...
The five-party government has launched a new COVID-19 hybrid strategy that aims to have all restrictions lifted once 80% of the population is fully vaccinated, the government announced on Monday. Rather than subject people to testing, tracking and going into...
Ministers have denied that the government could impose a ‘firebreak’ lockdown in October to curb a spike in COVID-19 cases. Following media reports that the government was planning to extend the school half-term holiday in mid-October if the number of...
Green Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler met representatives of a climate protection initiative launched by environmental protection NGOs and 250 companies to discuss the further strategy in climate protection on Tuesday. “We need to put an end to the old preconception...
The OSCE acknowledged Tuesday (7 September) that it had been unable to organise an annual human rights conference, a day after Western countries accused Russia of blocking attempts to hold it.
The court case over the terrorist attacks that took place nearly six years ago at the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de France and at terraces across Paris will take place at a large facility built specifically to host the...
A trial of unprecedented scale starts under high security on Wednesday to judge 20 men suspected of involvement in jihadist attacks across Paris on November 13, 2015 - the deadliest attack in peacetime-France's history, Reuters writes. Some 130 people were killed and hundreds wounded when gunmen with suicide vests targeted six bars and restaurants, the Bataclan concert hall, and a sports stadium, leaving deep scars on the nation's psyche.
Japan, as well as Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brunei, and Serbia are shortly to be removed from the EU's 'white list' of countries for which it recommends no Covid-linked travel restrictions, diplomats told Reuters. The preliminary decision, on Tuesday, comes after the EU, in late September, also removed Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and the US from the safe list, which now numbers fewer than 20 nations worldwide.
France has said Britain would look bad if it placed new conditions on a previous deal to pay £54m (€63m) toward coast-guard patrols to stop migrants crossing the English Channel. "Conditions of the funding were negotiated in detail with the British and it was never a question of conditioning the money to specific targets [of interceptions]," the French interior ministry noted, saying the UK risked "a serious loss of trust".
There is no place for Afghan refugees in the European Union which should instead help them to stay in their homeland, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said on Tuesday (7 September).
A new EU permanent camp for asylum seekers is being inaugurated later this month in Samos. Vagelis Stratis from the International Rescue Committee says people are leaving the island to avoid to it, amid a spike in mental health cases.
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