Original title: The Brexit issue was squeezed out of the EU summit agenda. Both sides believe that their positions may no longer be reconciled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a final attempt, urging EU leaders to intervene to save the trade talks on the brink of collapse. However, the discussion at the EU summit … Read more
Four and a half years after the referendum, the Brexit ax will fall on January 1, 2021. Despite everything, gray areas persist, the thickness of the free trade treaty of more than 700 pages which must give its truth on the future relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom. This is to tell … Read more
On the occasion of the World Human Rights Day and the 72nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on 8 December EU Ambassador Ina Marčiulionytė co-chaired the panel discussion on “COVID-19 and the Human Rights Dimension”. The event was organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Lao PDR, Department of Treaties … Read more
Budapest and Warsaw are blocking the approval of the budget and the associated fund with a total volume of over 1.8 trillion euros (approximately 48 trillion crowns) due to conditionality, which the leaders of the countries agreed at the July summit. Money from the budget for the period 2021 to 2027 and from the emergency … Read more
Summary [British Prime Minister Johnson and European Commission President Von der Lein had a telephone conversation and issued a joint statement]On the evening of December 5th local time, British Prime Minister Johnson and European Commission President Von der Lein had a long-term negotiation on the currently suspended UK-EU trade agreement. After an hour of telephone … Read more
Hungary and Poland would lose tens of billions of euros by cutting off the package, but they still refuse to approve the fund and the future multiannual budget because of linking access to money with the question of the quality of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary. On Thursday, Poland, which … Read more
The United Kingdom is the first in the world to approve Pfizer and BioNtech’s corona vaccine for use. The first vaccinations will probably follow next week. – The UK medicines agency, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), confirmed on Wednesday that the UK has approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s corona vaccine. The vaccine will be … Read more
This was announced by the president of the European commission Ursula Von der Leyen at the end of the videoconference with EU leaders. The EMA will be responsible for authorizing its marketing. Regarding the restrictions to contain the infections, it is necessary to relax the measures by following “a gradual and coordinated approach to avoid … Read more
The agriculture ministers of the European Union are angry with European Commissioner Frans Timmermans. They are disturbed by his “threat” that the European Commission might withdraw the new agricultural subsidy plans, because they would not have turned green enough after the intervention of the EU countries and the European Parliament. Timmermans, the EU’s second man … Read more
Dutch pulse fishermen have to wait months for clarity about the future of the controversial electric shock fishing method. The European Commission will issue an opinion before the summer of 2021, it was announced on Monday. That opinion also includes a positive pulse fishing report from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea … Read more