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WARSAW Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has made an offer to the Danish authorities for Poland to buy back doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson after the product was pulled from the Danish vaccination programme due to rare cases of blood clots potentially linked to the vaccine, Polsat News TV has reported. Read more. /// EU PRESIDENCY China Atlantic base to spark ‘strong concern’, Portuguese minister says. Any Chinese military base in the Atlantic Ocean is u...

Romania’s Prime Minister Florin Cîțu announced that the Convergence Programme for 2021-2024 has been approved by the government at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday (5 May). According to media reports, however, the programme offers little that is new. It is reportedly largely based on previous documents issued by the government, such as the fiscal-budgetary strategy and the governing programme, updated with the most recent macroeconomic data, though it also stresses the need to reform the pub...

A convergence programme was approved at Tuesdays government meeting that contains reforms pledged by the government in areas such as the state...

Illustrative photo: Oleg Magni, Pexels In a new prognosis the Czech Ministry of Finance says it expects economic growth of 3.1 percent this year. At the same time officials say that the budget deficit will reach 8.8 percent of gross domestic product in 2021. Last year the Czech economy was rocked by the coronavirus crisis and shrank by 5.6 percent. While the Ministry of Finance predicts a 3.1 percent expansion in 2021, others are less optimistic. The Czech National Bank issued an estimate of 2....