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“At this phase, we need to get the vaccine before it is approved by the EMA. “That way we can avoid dependency on internal distribution within the EU. “It is important to emphasise that we are not violating any EU rule or regulation in the process.” More EU countries are turning to the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine (Image: GETTY) Russia could start shipping its Sputnik V jab to Europe before EU approval (Image: GETTY) Zagreb is currently negotiating with Moscow for a supply of a...

Pfizer this week delivered 4.8 million doses of its Covid vaccine, which is developed alongside German partner BioNTech, to the EU. This means the EU has taken delivery of around 28 million doses of the two-shot jab, EU officials told the Reuters news agency. But the bloc is still 10 million doses short of what Pfizer was said to have promised to member states since the rollout began late last year. EU sources say Pfizer committed to delivering around 3.5 million doses a week from the start of ...

Josep Borrell served on the board of Spanish energy firm Abengoa between 2009 and 2016. The company was involved in the construction of combined-cycle gas turbine power plants. During his stint with Abengoa, Mr Borrell received up to €300,000 a year. Three of Ursula von der Leyens top EU officials have links to fossil fuel firms (Image: GETTY) European Commission Presdent Ursula von der Leyen (Image: GETTY) The Spaniard was forced to resign as the president of the European University Institut...

BREXIT BRITAIN has thwarted the EUs goals of becoming a global superpower by weakening the bloc, according to an expert.

“A nationality condition in a State aid scheme is plainly incompatible with the single market. “Ryanair is a truly European airline. We have no rich and powerful ‘home country’ to subsidise us in times of trouble. “Nor do we want discriminatory aid. Our instinct in a crisis is to seek efficiencies and cost savings, to offer more routes at lower fares – while remaining Europe’s greenest airline. Ryanair lashes out at EU Commission after ECJ rejects state aid complaints (Image: GETT...

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“If we take a look at the number of people who have had both injections in the UK and the EU, France included, we see that the number of fully vaccinated people is lower in the UK. “The British have taken more risks, which has allowed them to go faster. What is happening in the UK is not something I would like to have here. It’s a strategy of massive vaccination with more risks.” Britain has administered almost 16 million doses of coronavirus vaccines, more than 22 percent of the entire...

GERMANY has been accused of breaking European Union rules after slamming shut borders with its neighbours to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Official information published by the Commission explains that a number of these journeys could have been made by train. According to EU rules, the bloc’s most senior official is only allowed to book private jets “when no commercial alternatives can be found to fit agenda or security constraints”. Express.co.uk can reveal she has spent almost £20,000 on chartering planes for her travels. Mrs von der Leyen last year hired a private jet to make the short hop across the English Channel to d...

This is a £59 million increase compared to the Hemicycle budget for 2021. It was said the plan was drawn up to reduce the workload of MEPs and the Parliament’s administrative body. Some 76 new officials will be distributed between the political groups while 66 will join the secretary-general’s task force. EU Parliament set to splash out £60m as more than 100 new staff for MEPs are hired (Image: GETTY) The Parliament’s official administrative body had previously reduced its workforce by ...