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UK readies 'V-Day' Covid vaccination campaign
AFP, Published on 07/12/2020
» LONDON - Britain on Monday prepared to start its biggest ever immunisation campaign but health officials warned the drive to inoculate millions against Covid-19 would be a "marathon" stretching well into next year.
EU, UK face 'narrow path' to Brexit breakthrough in final push
AFP, Published on 07/12/2020
» BRUSSELS: EU and UK post-Brexit trade talks reached crisis point on Monday with the outcome highly uncertain and the risk of a damaging "no-deal" still alive.
EU, Britain attempt breakthrough in Brexit talks
AFP, Published on 06/12/2020
» BRUSSELS: The EU and Britain's chief Brexit negotiators will make a last-ditch bid to break months of deadlock on Sunday, as trade talks limp back to Brussels, surviving on borrowed time.
ECB to beef up stimulus as second virus wave bites
AFP, Published on 06/12/2020
» FRANKFURT AM MAIN - The European Central Bank is set to unleash more stimulus for the eurozone at its last meeting of the year on Thursday, as the region's battered economy grapples with a second coronavirus wave.
UK universities will lose cachet post-Brexit, EU students warn
AFP, Published on 06/12/2020
» LONDON - Despite the prestige of Oxford and Cambridge and other top universities, EU students warn Britain will be less attractive after Brexit, with fees set to soar and legal tangles still not ironed out.
UK, EU leaders plan last-ditch Brexit chat
AFP, Published on 05/12/2020
» LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen will hold talks Saturday to try to break the deadlock in post-Brexit trade deal negotiations, with time running short.
Wall Street at records as stocks gain on vaccine, stimulus optimism
AFP, Published on 05/12/2020
» NEW YORK - Investors pushed stock markets higher Friday with US equities ending at all-time highs as continued optimism over vaccines and signs of progress on new US stimulus offset worries about rising coronavirus cases.
France threatens veto as Brexit talks stumble to line
AFP, Published on 04/12/2020
» BRUSSELS - European doubts over a post-Brexit trade deal with Britain boiled over on Friday, with France threatening a veto even as intense negotiations entered what could be their final hours.
Ex-French president Giscard d'Estaing dies of Covid at 94
AFP, Published on 03/12/2020
» PARIS: Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who led his country into a new modern era and onto a firmly pro-European path, died late Wednesday of Covid-19, his family said.
How Covid-19 disrupted the EU's integration
Oped, Melvyn Krauss, Published on 03/12/2020
» The second wave of Covid-19 infections has struck Europe harder than many expected. The hope of a V-shaped recovery has been replaced by the fear of a double-dip recession, implying that there will be no quick return to normal European Union budget rules. More worryingly, Europe now finds itself forced into a tradeoff between two objectives, both of which are critical to its long-term viability as a supranational political and economic bloc. Now more than ever, the EU's commitment to the rule of law appears to be on the chopping block.