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After the culture ministry last week unveiled its proposals to revise the conditions of access to press subsidies, proposing among other things, that aid to the press should be more conditional on the presence of at least one professional journalist in all editorial offices, representatives of the press have reacted to the proposals, with mixed feelings.  At the moment, the eligibility criteria for the press to receive subsidies does not require the presence of regular professional journalists...

Attacks against journalists and abusive arrests multiplied in France during the pandemic, according to the 2021 edition of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) world press freedom index published on Monday morning. Despite this, France kept its rank of 34 among the 180 countries surveyed. An increase in attacks against journalists and abusive arrests were also recorded in other European countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland and Greece. The report also revealed that journalists in 73 of the 180 c...

: SOFIA Bulgaria may withdraw the AstraZeneca vaccine due to lack of interest. Bulgarian Health Minister Kostadin Angelov announced on Monday that the country’s roll-out of the AstraZeneca vaccine may be discontinued due to lack of interest. Read more. /// Power struggle in the CDU/CSU. Germany’s ruling conservative parties disagreed publicly on Monday over who should be their candidate for chancellor in the 26 September federal election. What could follow is a power struggle for the posit...

A message from FACEBOOK: Facebook partnerships to fight against COVID-19:  Working together is more important than ever in the fight against COVID-19. In Spain, the World Bank is using Facebook’s Disease Prevention Maps to forecast needs for COVID-19 testing and hospital beds. Learn more about how we’re collaborating to keep communities safe and informed at about.fb.com/europe. In today’s news from the Capitals: PRAGUE | WARSAW | BRATISLAVA |  BUDAPEST Although the four Visegrad count...

SOFIA The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) is about to reject seven out of 10 of Bulgaria’s candidates for the European Delegated Prosecutor, a source from the EPPO told EURACTIV Bulgaria. The EPPO, led by Laura Kovesi, has notified the Bulgarian justice ministry that they have remarks about seven of the candidates the Bulgarian authorities proposed on 18 February. Read more. /// EU PRESIDENCY Portugal considers including unapproved vaccines on EU vaccination certificates. Portuga...

: 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 Hungary’s top EU court nominee chosen unilaterally without formal selection, sources say. Neither a public application nor any other formal selection procedure preceded the nomination of Zoltán Csehi as the country’s new member of the European Court of Justice by Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga. According to Telex sources, Csehi had been a lawyer in the law firm of Varga’s predecessor until 2016 and had little experience in European law prior to being appointed to th...

  “We included clear and strict mechanisms in terms of both monitoring and review, suspension or withdrawal of such decisions, to address any problematic development of the UK system after the adequacy would be granted.” – Věra Jourová , Vice-President for Values and Transparency, speaking about the Commission’s draft adequacy decision for EU-UK data transfers on Friday.     Top Story: The European Commission has issued draft adequacy approval on transfers of personal data between...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Croatia and Slovakia looking into getting the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, Lithuania's parliament calling for the persecution of Uighurs in China to be investigated, and so much more.

NORDICS HELSINKI Fifth-generation mobile networks from China may pose a certain number of possible risks, the director of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service, Antti Peltarri, warned in an interview with the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation (YLE), adding that countries like Russia and China are attempting to get hold of Finland’s critical infrastructure. Read more. /// BERLIN Germans start showing liking for CDU/CSU and Greens coalition. A few months before the German elections, vote...