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Signage for Portugal s presidency of the EU Council goes up in Brussels. XINHUA
Reinforcing strategic autonomy is a major priority as Portugal assumes the presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first six months of this year.
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said in a joint news conference with European Council President Charles Michel in Lisbon on Jan 5 that besides delivering a fair, green and digital recovery, another priority of its presidency is to reinforce the strategic autonomy of a European Union open to the world and a Europe that is a global player and rejects protectionism .
NICOSIA
Politis journal in an interview. More.
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BERLIN
Heightened security at the Bundestag. Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble has organised an increase in security for the German parliament building according to a report in the Bild am Sonntag. Read more.
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PARIS
France mobilising to avoid ‘catastrophic’ situation with new COVID variant. “We are doing everything we can to prevent the spread of this variant,” Health Minister Olivier Véran told Europe 1/CNews/Les Échos on Sunday morning in reference to the new coronavirus variant that recently emerged in the UK. Read more.
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BRUSSELS
Belgium asks for ‘fair share’ of vaccines. Belgium will apply for ten million additional Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines, Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke announced over the weekend. At the same time, there is still no official database on vaccination efforts. More.
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