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Consumer protection associations can bring representative actions for infringement of EU privacy rules against data processors such as Facebook, before national courts, according to an Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice.

Özlem Türeci, BioNTech's chief medical officer, was among the four winners in the sixth edition of the Women of Europe Awards held on Wednesday (1 December) by the European Movement International and the European Women's Lobby (EWL).

Former chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced his departure from the political stage on Thursday (2 December) by resigning from all his political posts. His resignation will lead to a cabinet reshuffle, and potentially, a new chancellor.

A planned revision of EU gas market legislation, expected on 14 December, will seek to improve access to gas storage facilities and include provisions enabling the joint purchasing of gas stocks, the European Commission has said.

A year after the death of former French President and MEP Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the European Parliament paid him a tribute at a ceremony in Strasbourg.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

A year after the death of former French President and MEP Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the European Parliament paid him a tribute at a ceremony in Strasbourg.

Source : © European Union, 2021 - EP

As part of Life Terra’s ambitious plans for European forests and citizens, the foundation collaborates for the first time with a landowner in the Czech Republic. Their joint reforestation is also a research project supported by the Czech University of...

NATO's tone towards Russia is getting harsher: at the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Riga on Tuesday and Wednesday, Secretary General Stoltenberg warned that Russian aggression against Ukraine would "come at a high price". US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke of evidence of Russia having such plans and threatened economic sanctions. Europe's press interprets the signals from the conference.

France and Britain are still unable to agree on how to prevent migrant deaths in the English Channel. A meeting of interior ministers was cancelled by Macron after Johnson posted a Twitter message calling on France to take back all migrants. The situation has escalated after the drowning of 27 migrants in the English Channel last week.

The EU Commission has proposed that the migrants at the Polish border with Belarus be temporarily accommodated in reception centres. It also wants to allow Poland, Latvia and Lithuania to extend the asylum process and apply simplified rules for deportations. What do commentators in Europe make of this?

After almost 400 years under British rule, the Caribbean island nation of Barbados this week removed the Queen as its head of state. The new head of state is Sandra Mason, who previously served as governor general and the Queen's representative. The press examines the move from different perspectives.