The European Central Bank (ECB) has published a briefing assessing short-term economic developments during the COVID-19 pandemic via the use of adjusted tools of measurement. (Source: [...]
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has announced that an exceptional meeting on the approval of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine against COVID-19 has now been scheduled for 21 December, eight days [...]
EU leaders finally reached a compromise on the EU’s next budget and the recovery fund „Next Generation EU”, together amounting to €1,8 billion. EU leaders had originally agreed on the [...]
On 2 December, the European Commission adopted a strategy for sustainably managing the pandemic over the coming winter months. The strategy recommends continued vigilance and caution throughout [...]
The European Parliament approved €823 million in EU aid to seven countries to help them tackle emergencies including the coronavirus pandemic. More than €130 million will be distributed in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Under the State Aid Temporary Framework, the Commission has most recently approved: a €2,3 million Czech scheme to support health SPA facilities affected by the coronavirus outbreak in the [...]
