EU

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Thursday recommended the use of Kineret and Xevudy for the treatment of coronavirus disease (Covid-19). EMA’s human medicines committee recommended the use of Kineret in adult Covid-19 patients with…
Read More...

The lightning spread of omicron in Europe and elsewhere added a sense of urgency to an EU summit on Thursday, with leaders struggling to present a united, bloc-wide approach. Projections that the highly mutated Covid strain could be…
Read More...

Wildfires have produced a record amount of carbon emissions in some parts of the world this year, according to the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. Fires in the western US, Siberia, and Turkey were among those…
Read More...

Pope Francis on Sunday returned to the island of Lesbos, the migration flashpoint he first visited in 2016, calling the neglect of migrants the "shipwreck of civilisation". "In Europe there are those who persist in treating the problem as…
Read More...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday denounced members of the European Union’s (EU) electoral observation mission who monitored voting last weekend as “spies,” and accused them of looking to “stain” the regional elections on their…
Read More...

The Taliban asked for help in keeping Afghanistan’s airports running in weekend talks with EU officials that also raised “grave concern” about the humanitarian situation in their country, according to an EU statement late Sunday. Both…
Read More...

Exhausted and trapped in a cold, “cruel” forest, Lebanese barber Ali Abd Alwareth said he regretted his week-long bid to enter the European Union via the Belarus-Poland border. “It’s miserable. Something that you don’t wish for your worst…
Read More...

The United States and several European countries on Wednesday condemned North Korea’s recent missile tests and said Pyongyang’s technical advances demonstrate the urgent need to ramp up implementation of UN sanctions on its nuclear and…
Read More...

The EU will only cooperate with the Taliban if they respect fundamental rights, including those of women, and prevent the use of Afghanistan’s territory by terrorists, the bloc’s foreign policy chief said on Tuesday. Josep Borrell outlined…
Read More...

State Secretary Gašper Dovžan, President of the EU’s General Affairs Council, hosted an informal meeting of European Affairs ministers at Brdo pri Kranju today. At an informal discussion on strengthening the Union’s resilience, ministers…
Read More...