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Britain has pulled forward its deadline for giving at least one coronavirus jab to every adult in the country from September to 31 July, with UK health secretary Matt Hancock saying on Sunday "we now think that we have the supplies" to speed up the vaccination programme. Britain's mishandling of the pandemic saw much higher death tolls compared to most of Europe, but its inoculation scheme won back political capital.

Brussels' cavernous basilica is one of the largest churches in the world but COVID-19 rules allow only 15 people at a time to attend mass there, the same limit applied to much smaller religious venues in Belgium.

Thanks in part to Brexit, Lithuania is becoming a fintech hub as a growing number of UK-linked digital financial companies are getting licences there so they can continue to operate in the European Union.

The EU is preparing an eco-label system for air travel for 2022, according to German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, citing internal documents, which said the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in Cologne had put out a tender for a classification system. The EASA system would be for "providing reliable, comparable, and verifiable information" for consumers on airlines and flight-routes' CO2-emissions footprints to enable customers to choose green options.

Europe is an undisputed global leader in clean technologies like offshore wind. But to ensure European companies and workers can compete in a global economy that will be increasingly fuelled by climate innovations, much more needs to be done, argue Peter Sweatman and Thomas Pellerin-Carlin.

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency struck a deal Sunday enabling nuclear weapons inspectors to keep access for three more months, pending a new deal on sanctions with the US. Iran had first threatened to kick out inspectors right away. The brinksmanship comes as US secretary of state Anthony Blinken speaks to EU foreign ministers Monday for the first time, amid EU-mediated efforts to get Tehran and Washington talking.

Unionist politicians in Northern Ireland and England have threatened legal action against the Brexit deal due to trade disruptions.

The European Union envisages providing around one billion euros over six years to aid Ivory Coast's cocoa sector as it adapts to EU supply chain laws due to be introduced later this year, its envoy in Abidjan said.

Just 10 countries have administered 75 percent of all Covid vaccines so far - while some 130 poor countries have not yet received a single dose

A letter sent to the European Economic and Social Committee by a group of cross-party MEPs fighting for LGBTi rights expresses fears that a recently-appointed Polish member may try to undermine those rights.

EU foreign affairs ministers will meet in Brussels and are expected to agree to visa-bans and asset-freezes on Russian officials involved in the jailing of opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny.

The stubborn fact is that, election after election - and it's already three consecutive absolute majorities - anti-independence forces cannot convince the majority of Catalans that our democratic rights and a better future can be attained within the Spanish kingdom.

The military coup seems to have inflamed and united a diverse and ostensibly depoliticised society. There seems to be an across the board rejection by the people of Myanmar of a return to military dictatorship.

As Europe charts a green recovery, industries capable of delivering sustainable growth must be nurtured. European battery manufacturers play an important role here.

President Joe Biden declared the "transatlantic alliance is back" Friday (19 February) in a powerful speech seeking to reestablish the United States as leader of the West against what he called a global assault on democracy.

The European Union should create “broad structures of partnership” with the United Kingdom on defence and security policy, Portuguese defence minister João Gomes Cravinho said on Friday (19 February).

Barcelona and several other Spanish cities woke up on Sunday morning to looted stores and damaged property after a fifth consecutive night of protests calling for the release of rapper Pablo Hasel. EURACTIV's partner EFE reports.

The fertilizer industry has identified the most promising technologies for making green fertilizers. The challenge is to make the business case for decarbonised products. This can be achieved by driving down the cost and addressing technical challenges on the supply...

More than 30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, media freedom is again under threat in several countries in Europe. Silencing journalists and media outlets, imposing taxes, harassment are but a few of the tools used by some European autocrats in their war against freedom of speech. We want to change this!

European Council President Charles Michel delivered his speech at the special edition of the Munich Security Conference held via videoconference.