Minister Süli Hospitalized with Covid-19 hungarytoday.hu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hungarytoday.hu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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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.
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Portugal considers including unapproved vaccines on EU vaccination certificates. Portugal’s secretary of state for European affairs has acknowledged that vaccines not certified by the European Medicines Authority but are already circulating in Europe might be included in the EU digital vaccination certificate due to be presented soon by the Commission. Read more.
Fidesz coalition partner MEP stays in EPP Group euractiv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from euractiv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The EU and Switzerland have been embroiled in multiple disputes for years, and are still negotiating the terms of their cooperation today. Bern and Brussels are currently trying to forge an institutional framework agreement. Negotiations for the partnership began in 2014, but are still to reach a formal conclusion as disagreements over agriculture, trade and stock markets leave talks stalled. Switzerland and the EU still work together on a patchwork of 120 treaties – pa
Zsolt Semjén (left) and PM Viktor Orbán (Wikipedia/ Author Dodann )
Hungary’s deputy prime minister called Thursday’s ruling by the European Union’s highest court in favour of banning kosher slaughter a “disgrace,” setting up the first public international clash over the landmark decision.
“Yesterday’s ruling by the European Court of Justice upholding a ban on kosher ritual slaughter in Belgium is a disgrace to the religious freedom and security of the European Jewish community and is yet one more sign of the total collapse of our traditional Judeo-Christian value system,” said Zsolt Semjén, the head of the right-wing Christian Democratic People’s Party, a coalition partner of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling Fidesz party.