Tag: European Union
Germany expects vaccine deliveries to ramp up in 2nd quarter
BERLIN — Germany's health minister on Monday welcomed the announcement by two pharmaeutical companies that they will deliver more coronavirus vaccines during the second...
Georgian opposition parties sign deal to end crisis
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia edged closer to ending a months-long political crisis after several opposition parties signed a deal Monday that was brokered by...
Refugees win rare victory in Serbia landmark pushback ruling
BELGRADE, Serbia — Hamid Ahmadi still can feel the cold of the February night when Serbian police left him and two dozen other refugees...
Italy judge weighs Salvini trial for 2019 migrant standoff
ROME — A judge in Sicily on Saturday began weighing whether to put former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on trial for having refused to...
Ukraine, France and Germany hold security talks
PARIS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is holding talks on Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel amid growing tensions...
Polish civic groups oppose ‘takeover’ of human rights office
WARSAW, Poland — More than 120 Polish organizations have voiced opposition to what they call “the hostile takeover” of the office of the country's...
German’s IDT to make 10M AstraZeneca vaccine doses in 2021
BERLIN — German vaccine-maker IDT Biologika said Friday it plans to bottle this year some 10 million doses of the coronavirus shot developed by...
EU’s Borrell voices solidarity with US in SolarWinds hack
BRUSSELS — The European Union' foreign policy chief expressed “solidarity" with the U.S. Thursday in the wake of the so-called SolarWinds hack, a breach...
Mercedes rolls out luxury electric car in duel with Tesla
FRANKFURT, Germany — Daimler AG on Thursday unveiled a battery-powered counterpart to its top Mercedes-Benz luxury sedan as German carmakers ramp up their challenge...
Rocket attack on base in northern Iraq kills Turkish soldier
ANKARA, Turkey — A rocket attack targeting a Turkish military base in northern Iraq killed one soldier and wounded a child in a nearby...