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The UK and Australian trade ministers say that they are on the brink of agreeing a new trade deal. UK International Trade minister Liz Truss and Australian counterpart Dan Tehan revealed on Friday that they had finalised “the vast majority” of a free trade deal, with the deal to be signed off on by June.  Truss added that the agreement would lower the price of Australian wine in the UK. The pact would be one of the first UK trade agreements with a third country that does not simply roll o...

MEP: EU corporate reporting blueprint should be basis of international rules 21-04-2021 The European Commissions plans for a Sustainability Reporting directive announced on Wednesday (21 April) provide "solid ground for discussion" says Pascal Durand, the European Parliaments rapporteur on the subject, as he sets out Parliaments plans to handle the file in the coming months. [OneStockPhoto / Shutterstock]

Share She had her hair brunette pulled off her face in a ponytail, and opted for a rosy makeup look with nude lipgloss.  At the event, Zoe proudly told onlookers she was expecting a baby girl, and could not wipe the smile off her face.   Stunning: The 36-year-old beamed as she posed in a fitted black maxi-dress which showed off her blossoming bump Looking good: Zoe cradled her tummy as she posed in the turtleneck number Day out: Coming along for the event was Zoes two-year-old son Benjami...

: TALLINN | RIGA | VILNIUS Baltic states prepare to leave Russian electricity network, join European one. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, all currently part of the Russian electricity network since gaining independence in the early 90s, are set to join the Continental Europe electricity network in early 2026, meaning they will soon be leaving the Russian one. Read more. /// EU PRESIDENCY Kyriakides: Lifting patents is not way forward to produce more vaccines. Health Commissioner Stella Kyriaki...

Share The following image showed the South Sydney Rabbitohs player carrying his boy in his arms as they walked through a fun house. Zoes final image in the collection was of Benji and Benjamin posing for a wacky photo as they poked their heads through a wall adorned by soft serve cones.  Yum yum: In the first photo, Benji, 36, and Benjamin looked very excited to chow down on their chips on a stick Strolling around: Another photo of the father and son showed them walking through the showgrounds...

: HELSINKI The city of Kemijärvi in Finnish Lapland turned down an offer made in January 2018 by China’s state-funded Polar Research Institute to buy or lease the city’s airport, after it informed the Finnish Armed Forces. But the matter is only now being made public. Read more. EU PRESIDENCY Social pillar will define next decade of European policy, EU official says. The action plan for a European Pillar of Social Rights will mark the next decade of European policies, European Commission a...

You can subscribe here. /// EDITOR’s TAKE Military mobility has been seen as the ‘silver bullet’ for EU-NATO defence cooperation, meant to ensure seamless movement of military equipment across the EU in response to crises. The military project, which bounced back from being nearly dead on the EU side recently, has also been hailed as one of the EU’s flagship defence initiatives with few political disagreements across the bloc. Throughout the negotiation process of the EU’s new long-t...

: PRAGUE The Czech Republic will take Poland to the European Court of Justice for illegal mining activities in the Túrow coal mine, Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček (S&D) has confirmed. According to the European Environmental Bureau, it will be the first legal case in EU history where one member state sues another for environmental reasons. EURACTIV’s Aneta Zachová reports from Prague. /// EU PRESIDENCY EU Commission warns of disorderly recovery from 2020 crisis. Not all EU countries ...

BUDAPEST Hungarian doctors can’t recommend Russian, Chinese jabs without the paperwork. Without making public the documents related to the authorisation of the Russian Sputnik-V and Chinese Sinopharm vaccines  – especially the summary of product characteristics – the leadership of the Hungarian Medical Chamber “cannot recommend the use of these products to its colleagues in good conscience,” the doctors wrote to the Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Food and Health (OGYÉI...

SOFIA The Russian embassy in Bulgaria reacted sharply against criticism by a US diplomat in Sofia about corruption in the country. Read more. /// EU PRESIDENCY Minister: Detachment from NATO would widen divisions in the EU. Any attempt to distance the European Union from NATO would only deepen the divisions among EU member states, Portugal’s defence minister, João Gomes Cravinho, has said, arguing instead that the mechanisms of cooperation between the two partners should be improved. Read t...