Tag: European Union

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  PM Johnson vowed to go 'an extra mile' for a Brexit deal, but also tells UK to prepare for a crash out of EU

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday vowed to go the “extra mile” for a Brexit trade deal but instructed his government to prepare for Britain to crash out of the European Union’s single market at the end of this year.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:37 UTC

  EU leaders unblock massive €1.8 trillion financial package for the recovery of the economy and linked to climate change

  

  European Union leaders unblocked on Thursday a €1.8 trillion financial package to help the economy recover from the pandemic-induced recession after reaching a compromise with Poland and Hungary, the chairman of EU leaders Charles Michel said.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Maduro allies win 91% of the legislature's seats following the Sunday vote

  

  Allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro won 91% percent of the legislature's seats following a vote on Sunday that was boycotted by the opposition and disavowed by the United States and the European Union.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  The last dinner: Boris Johnson and von der Leyen share British scallops and turbot

  

  After months of wrangling over access to British fishing waters, Britain's prime minister and the European Union's chief executive met for dinner in Brussels on Wednesday to pull Brexit trade talks back from the brink - and tucked into turbot.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Cyber-attack on EU medicines' regulator accesses crucial Pfizer vaccines info

  

  US drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to the development of their Covid-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Europe’s medicines regulator. The European Medicines Agency, EMA, which assesses medicines and vaccines for the EU said hours earlier it had been targeted in a cyber attack.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  EU/UK reach post-Brexit deal on Northern Ireland; Johnson meets EC head in Brussels

  

  The European Union and UK have reached an unofficial agreement on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland and its land border to the EU. The deal is not tied to last-gasp trade talks, but could help grease the wheels. The co-chairs of the EU-UK joint committee on Tuesday announced an “agreement in principle” pertaining in large part to the Irish border issue.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  India buys 1,6 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Novavax, Oxford and Sputnik

  

  India has bought 1.6 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines, which is more than any other country, according to a global analysis. Using its massive manufacturing clout, the country purchased 500 million doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine candidate, one billion from the American company Novavax and 100 million doses of the Sputnik V candidate from Russia's Gamaleya Research Institute, said the USA-based Duke University Global Health Innovation Centre.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  China becomes the EU's top trade partner, ahead of US in nine months of 2020

  

  China pushed past the United States in the third quarter to become the European Union's top trade partner, as the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the US while Chinese activity rebounded.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 16:41 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government position on fishing exports post-Brexit

  

  The Falkland Islands Government, both here and in London, have worked hard over the past four years to ensure that the impact of Brexit on the Falkland Islands was fully understood by the UK government.

• Tuesday, December 1st 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Falklands' seafood industry concerned with Brexit outcome and likely imposition of EU tariffs

  

  The Executive Secretary of the Falklands Islands Fishing Companies Association FIFCA, James Bates would like to issue the following press statement.