noiembrie 2020 Month:

The governments of Hungary and Poland have threatened to block the EU’s next budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027, and the bloc’s recovery package over provisions that recipients of funds must follow rule of law principle. Should their veto persist, then the timely adoption of the budget deal before the current budget expires on the […]

A new vaccine against the coronavirus jointly developed by U.S. pharmaceuticals company Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech is reportedly achieving 90% effectiveness in trials in people that had not been exposed to the virus previously. While it is yet unknown for how long the vaccine’s immunising effect lasts, the announcement has sparked hopes that the severe […]

Member State governments have disbursed only 15% of the €3 trillion in State aid approved by the Commission to help businesses in the first wave of the outbreak. There are also large differences between Member States: Germany by far made the most money available to companies (almost half of all aid schemes approved by the […]

The EU’s top scientific adviser, Belgian microbiologist Peter Piot, has cautioned hopes that the coronavirus will be over soon. Without a vaccine, and unless the structure of the virus changes and becomes less lethal, the two options continue to be herd immunity at the expense of millions of deaths, or continued lockdowns that devastate European […]