Further complicating Europe’s struggles to vaccinate its populations, the EU Medicines Agency has linked the AstraZeneca vaccine to very rare blood clots but said vaccination benefits still outweigh the risks.
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A top official at the European Medicines Agency says there is a causal link between AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine and rare blood clots, but that it’s unclear what the connection is and the benefits of taking the shot still outweigh the risks of getting Covid-19.
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An adviser to the EU’s high court says the European Union as a whole can ratify a treaty aimed at combating violence against women despite individual member states refusing to do so.
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A German farmer living in Ireland was told his German-barred lawyer couldn’t represent him in Irish courts because she wasn’t barred there.
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Iran has agreed to sit down with international technical experts investigating the discovery of uranium particles at three former undeclared sites in the country, the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog said Thursday, after months of frustration at Tehran’s lack of a credible explanation.
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The ratification of the U.K.-EU trade deal was under threat on Thursday after key ministers of the European Parliament said they would reject the pact if Britain pushed through with a plan to delay checks on food going to Northern Ireland.
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The European Commission will propose rules for an EU vaccine “green pass” this month, as the bloc prepares to ramp up immunization drives, commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Monday.
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Member states slow to adopt EU rules are learning by way of Europe’s highest court that there is some bite behind the European Commission’s bark.
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Filed less than six weeks before Brexit, the case may be one of the last involving the United Kingdom that the EU court considers.
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The European Union’s executive commission on Friday pledged to double its contribution to the World Health Organization’s COVAX program, bringing the 27-nation bloc’s commitment to the initiative to deliver vaccines to poor nations to 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion).
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Epic Games said Wednesday it filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with European Union regulators, opening a new front in its war with the tech giant over app store payments.
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The European Union announced Wednesday that it has agreed to buy a further 300 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine against Covid-19 and was injecting almost $300 million into efforts to counter the threat of coronavirus variants that are spreading on the continent.
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European Union lawmakers on Wednesday approved a 815 billion recovery package of loans and grants to help member nations recover more quickly from the coronavirus pandemic, but countries will not receive the money for several months.
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Luxembourg on Monday denied claims made in international media publications that the nation is a massive tax haven for the world’s rich and famous despite European Union legislation to clamp down on it.
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Politicians in Britain, Northern Ireland and the European Union on Tuesday condemned threats against border staff that prompted authorities to suspend post-Brexit checks on animal products.
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The European Union and AstraZeneca agreed Friday to make public a heavily redacted version of their coronavirus vaccine agreement, which lies at the heart of a dispute over how many shots the pharmaceutical company should be supplying the EU’s 27 nations.
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The European Union’s dispute with AstraZeneca intensified Wednesday with the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker denying the EU’s assertion that it had pulled out of talks on vaccine supplies.
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Gay dating app Grindr faces a fine of more than $10 million from Norwegian regulators for failing to get consent from users before sharing their personal information with advertising companies, in breach of stringent European Union privacy rules.
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Two German men were fined for late payment of their public broadcaster fee after being told they could not pay in cash.
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The European Union’s executive body proposed Monday that the bloc’s 27 nations impose more travel restrictions to counter the worrying spread of new coronavirus variants but make sure to keep goods and workers moving across EU borders.
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