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In Europa könnte ein Corona-Impfstoff für Kinder und Jugendliche womöglich noch im Mai zugelassen werden. Die Chefin der europäischen Arzneimittelbehörde (EMA), Emer Cooke, sagte dem "Handelsblatt", derzeit werde der Biontech/Pfizer-Impfstoff für Zwölf- bis 15-Jährige geprüft.

The Spanish car industry is mulling extending temporary lay-off schemes known as ERTEs currently due to expire at the end of the month until at least next September to mitigate the pandemic’s negative impact on the sector. EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports.

The EU will shortly issue a statement of support for pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong with or without Hungary, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said Monday, after Budapest vetoed a draft communiqué. "If unanimity is not reached ... we will have to take a position which does not reflect unanimity," he said, adding: "We will continue working [on Hungary's objections] for one more week ... just one more week".

Laut einer Tierrettungsgruppe aus der südwestchinesischen Stadt Chengdu haben Tierretter einen Lieferwagen abgefangen und rund 160 Kisten mit Hunden und Katzen gefunden.

Laut einer Tierrettungsgruppe aus der südwestchinesischen Stadt Chengdu haben Tierretter einen Lieferwagen abgefangen und rund 160 Kisten mit Hunden und Katzen gefunden.

EU foreign ministers discussed Western Balkans enlargement for the first time in two years on Monday in what EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said was "quite strange" given the region's "geostrategic" importance. "We cannot go on holidays without having restarted the talks", on normalising Kosovo-Serbia relations, he said. Granting Kosovars visa-free EU travel and lifting Bulgaria's veto on North Macedonia accession talks were also his top priorities, Borrell said.

Trois hommes avaient été mis en cause lors de cette longue enquête portant sur des pierres précieuses d’une valeur de 2,3 millions de dollars volatilisées à Genève.

Russia has recruited allies in German chancellor Angela Merkel's "inner circle" and in Austrian intelligence services, exiled Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky has warned.

Militante Palästinenser haben nach Angaben des israelischen Militärs bislang mehr als 200 Raketen aus dem Gazastreifen auf Israel abgefeuert. Israels Armee reagierte darauf mit schweren Luftangriffen.

The Istanbul Convention is a milestone in the fight against gender-based violence. We are determined to ensure full implementation and enforcement in our countries, write high-level signatories from seventeen European countries. Signatories are ministers from 16 European countries.** Today we...

Serving members of the French military have fired a second salvo at Emmanuel Macron's government, in an open letter accusing it of "cowardice, deceit, perversion", just weeks after a first letter said the country was heading for "civil war", The Guardian reports. Like the first letter, it appears in the rightwing magazine Valeurs Actuelles. It was reportedly signed anonymously "by active military personnel," and accompanied by a petition.

Hundreds of thousands of European citizens could find themselves in limbo after 30 June, and left without documented legal rights to remain in the UK, if the British government does not clear a backlog of more than 320,000 applications for post-Brexit residency status, The Guardian writes. The settlement scheme is open to EU citizens who started living or studying in the country by 31 December 2020.

The Dutch government has allocated €2bn to develop a carbon capture and storage project under the North Sea, Reuters reported on Monday. The initiative, involving oil majors Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil, is expected to reduce emissions in the industrial area surrounding Europe's largest seaport by around 10 percent. It is set to be operational in 2024.The Netherlands is among the member states with the highest emissions-per-capita.

Germany on Monday said the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will now be made available to all adults, Reuters reported. Previously, older people were given priority access to this brand of vaccine. Last month, the EU drug regulator backed the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, after reviewing rare cases of bloc clotting in the US. Germans over 60 are expected to be vaccinated by late May or early June.

Economy commissioner Paolo Gentoloni said the real challenge is whether member states can stick to their national plans and timelines. However, more than a dozen EU countries still need to ratify legislation to start the funding.

Italian media have reported some 1,400 migrants arrived on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday. EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson is asking EU states to help relocate some in a bid to help Italy.

The EU-Mercosur trade agreement, as it stands, would exacerbate the 'boomerang effect' of pesticides banned in the EU re-entering the bloc on food imports.

The question remains whether the EU can take advantage of the latest talks, and other shifts in the Middle East, to reverse its own diplomatic marginalisation.

After months of talks and intense negotiations between Member States and the European Parliament, the European Union has agreed to cut its carbon emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. Vincent Briard is Group Sustainability Director...

The European Union is readying a fourth round of sanctions against senior Belarus officials in response to last year's contested presidential election and could target as many as 50 people from June, four diplomats said.