Germany recorded the highest excess mortality rate of 37%, with Romanian MEP Cristian Terhes saying that officials must be open-minded to the causes of the spike.
Freedom of information requests reveal that senior EU transport official Henrik Hololei enjoyed trips to Qatar while he and his office were negotiating a controversial open skies agreement with the Gulf state.
The greener member states do not want to foot the bill for others’ fossil dependence as energy ministers met for “intense” debate organized by the Council’s Swedish presidency.
The agreement between the EU and UK governments will entail reduced border checks on British goods entering Northern Ireland.
Some say the political project of Spain’s labour minister is uniting the Left, yet she may actually be establishing her own movement.
Most of those who were rescued or made it to shore alive were adults. Two minors ages 12 and 16 also survived.
“Now would be the right time to decide to abolish unanimity” voting in the Council, said the EPP chief, suggesting reforms toward deeper EU integration.
The U.S. Energy Department has joined the FBI in concluding that COVID-19 was likely accidentally released from a Chinese lab.
Volkswagen and Hyundai announced plans to shift production to the U.S.; now Audi CEO Markus Duesmann also projects moving operations to America.
The leaders’ endorsement of the deal represents a major breakthrough for their countries’ deadlocked relations.
The Commission’s new repatriation plan comes as support for national-conservative parties increases—a trend that, for the moment, shows no sign of abating.
Ian Fleming’s biographer has stated that “that what an author commits to paper is sacrosanct and shouldn’t be altered.”
