Tag: European Union

• Wednesday, May 26th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Italian PM hopeful green pass will enable economic, social activities to restart next month

  

  Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Tuesday before the European Commission in Brussels that he was confident the vaccination “green pass” was to be ready for mid-June so that economic and social activities can restart, including the return of tourists at the beginning of the season.

• Tuesday, May 25th 2021 - 08:44 UTC

  EU hits back at Belarus for hijacking of Ryanair flight

  

  The European Union seems determined not to let Sunday's incident at Minsk airport go by and is pressing for harsh sanctions against the regime of Belarussian leader Aleksander Lukashenko, starting with a ban on all Belarussian aircraft to fly through EU skies.

• Friday, May 21st 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  EU finalizes vaccine passport details as Summer season looms over

  

  The European Commission has reached a decision whereby all member states are to accept the digital covid-19 certificate also known as “vaccine passport,” a document which will show whether people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, and refrain from imposing additional travel measures such as quarantines to its citizens,

• Monday, May 17th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Uruguay: tourism almost back to normal by October – travel pass on the way

  

  Uruguay's Tourism Undersecretary Remo Monzeglio Sunday explained in a radio interview that his country envisions a quasi total return to normalcy for this coming October and that “we are preparing for the (summer) season.”

• Tuesday, May 11th 2021 - 02:38 UTC

  European Union one step closer to Green Passports

  

  The European Commission Monday took decisive steps towards the creation of a “green” or “vaccine passport” through a pilot test for what is viewed as the new normal.

• Monday, May 10th 2021 - 08:44 UTC

  Argentine President Fernández starts European tour in Lisbon

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández started his new European tour by meeting in Lisbon Sunday with his Portuguese counterpart Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

• Saturday, May 8th 2021 - 06:41 UTC

  Paraguayan President Abdo meets with Spain's FM

  

  Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez Friday welcomed Spain's Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya at the presidential residence of Mburuvicha Roga in Asunción. The presence of Spain's top diplomat is linked, among other issues, to Mercosur's trade deal with the European Union.

• Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 08:36 UTC

  London has a new, logical post-Brexit foreign ambassador

  

  The British government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally agreed to grant the representative of the European Union the diplomatic status held by all foreign ambassadors, which seemed natural after Brexit, but not for those who claimed the EU is not a nation-state.

• Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 06:59 UTC

  Worms become Europe's first edible insects, others may follow suit soon

  

  European Union countries may no longer need to import food from places like Mercosur and Brexiteers have certainly saved the United Kingdom from being a part of a worm-eating alliance.

• Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Spanish Government pleads EU to speed up trade accords with Latin American partners to contain China's expansion

  

  Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has petitioned the European Union to lift all barriers that prevent the bloc's trade agreement with Mercosur to become operational. Sánchez also requested similar action be taken in the cases of accords with Mexico and Chile.