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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 population. France is lagging behind having only delivered just 2.8 million doses – five-times fe...

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 deliver a speech at the London School of Economics before meeting Prime Minister Boris Johnson at Dow...

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 five percent between 2014 and 2020. Former Brexit Party MEP Alex Phillips said Parliament staff bare...