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: 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 advisor on social rights José António Vieira da Silva has said. Read more. Talks on EU corporate ta...

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-term budget last year, military mobility was on the verge of becoming one of the main casualties, wit...

: 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 will recover from the economic losses of 2020 at the same pace, the European Commission said on Mond...

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) on Tuesday. Read more. /// EU PRESIDENCY Portugal, Argentina vow to progress on EU-Mercosur agreem...

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 the full story. /// BERLIN German state leaders, local officials demand clearer vaccination plan. Ger...