Reading Time: 2 minutes BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union has not yet won over countries seeking more cash and conditions in exchange for committing to sharper emissions cuts, as it tries to strike a deal on on its new climate target by the end of the year. The EU has promised to make a tougher emissions-cutting target this year under the Paris
Reading Time: < 1 minute MILAN (Reuters) – Luxury brand Gucci, owned by French group Kering, will give at least €410,000 to UNICEF to help supply and distribute COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable people around the world, it said on Friday. In addition to the donation, Gucci said it would match money raised for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Reading Time: < 1 minute WARSAW (Reuters) – The first coronavirus vaccines could reach Poland in January, the Polish prime minister’s top aide said on Friday, as emerging Europe’s biggest country prepares to roll out its COVID-19 vaccination programme. Poland has ordered 45 million COVID-19 vaccines, and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said the
Reading Time: < 1 minute OSLO (Reuters) – Norway plans to use the three vaccines developed by Moderna, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and BioNTech in its first push to inoculate its population against COVID-19, the country’s health minister said on Friday. In the first quarter of 2021, Oslo expects to receive a total of 2.5 million doses, covering 1.25 million
Reading Time: < 1 minute ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he hoped France would soon get rid of President Emmanuel Macron, describing him as a burden on France which was enduring dangerous times. Ties between Turkey and France have been particularly tense in recent months over policy differences on Syria and the publishing
Reading Time: < 1 minute MOSCOW (Reuters) – Authorities in Moscow arrested a physicist on suspicion of state treason for allegedly passing classified information about Russia’s aviation industry abroad, news agencies reported late on Thursday. A Moscow court ruled that Anatoly Gubanov, who works for the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute, would be
Reading Time: < 1 minute BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A game of “cat-and-mouse” between the European Union and Turkey needs to come to an end, European Council President Charles Michel said on Friday, in reference to a dispute over natural gas resources in the eastern Mediterranean. “The game of cat and mouse must end,” Michel told a news conference, as Turkey
Reading Time: 2 minutes MADRID (Reuters) – The Spanish government intends to vaccinate between 15 and 20 million people against the coronavarius by May or June next year, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday. Meanwhile, more than half of Spaniards are not willing to get COVID-19 vaccine shots as soon as they are available, a survey showed on