Germany will attempt to ban British travellers from the European Union regardless of whether or not they have had a Covid-19 vaccine, The Times reported on Monday. The German chancellor wants to designate Britain as a “country of concern” because the Delta variant of the coronavirus is so widespread, the newspaper said. The […]
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EU and AstraZeneca battle in court over vaccine delays
The European Commission will confront drugs giant AstraZeneca in a Belgian court today over coronavirus vaccine delivery shortfalls that hampered efforts to kickstart inoculations across the bloc. Lawyers for both sides are due to appear before a judge in the French-speaking court in Brussels from 9.00 am (0700 GMT). Another […]
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EU considers shunning Belarusian airspace over forced landing
The European Union is considering shunning Belarus’s airspace and banning national carrier Belavia from EU airports after Belarusian authorities scrambled a warplane and forced a Ryanair jetliner to land in Minsk. EU leaders strongly condemned Belarus over yesterday’s incident, in which a flight from Greece to Lithuania was diverted and […]
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India, EU discuss possibility of opening new areas in trade cooperation
In its first high-level dialogue on bilateral trade and investment, India and the European Union exchanged views on the possibility of opening new areas of cooperation, especially on the resilience of global value chains and regulatory mechanisms besides key market access issues. India hosted the first India-EU high-level dialogue (HLD) on February 5 through virtual mode. The HLD was […]
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Greece, Turkey face first crisis talk since 2016
Greece and Turkey will bow to EU and Nato pressure today and hold the first direct talks over their explosive eastern Mediterranean standoff in four years. The Istanbul meeting is not expected to make major headway after the two Nato neighbours’ gunboats collided in August as their dispute over energy […]
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Apple’s stringent subscription rules in crosshairs of EU, developers
One week before Apple Inc.’s annual developer conference, the financial heart of its App Store is under renewed attack from antitrust regulators and exasperated developers. The European Commission launched two investigations into Apple on Tuesday. One major focus is on a contentious rule that limits what app developers can tell […]
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France, UK, Germany, EU ‘extremely concerned’ by Iran’s nuclear deal breach
France, Germany, Britain and the European Union have said they are “extremely concerned” by Iran’s decision to re-start nuclear activities at one of its key sites, in breach of a landmark 2015 deal with international powers. “The Foreign Ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom and the High Representative […]
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6 labourers killed in J&K on day of EU group’s visit
Militants gunned down six migrant labourers on Tuesday in Jammu & Kashmir’s (J&K) Kulgam district, the fifth attack in two weeks in which people from outside the state have been targeted. The incident came on a day a group of 23 European lawmakers met senior army and administration officials in […]
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‘We are not Muslim-hating Nazis’: EU lawmaker on delegation visiting Kashmir
Member of Germany’s rightwing Alternative for Germany (AFD) and of the European Parliament (EP), Lars Patrick Berg, was on the delegation of European parliamentarians currently visiting Kashmir, met PM Narendra Modi and other dignitaries in New Delhi but had to return to Germany for personal reasons. He spoke to Padma […]