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In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz saying he will not resign despite being under investigation and a polish right-wing opposition party opposing the EU proposal for 'vaccine passports', and so much more. ....
French President Emmanuel Macron called for a more agile EU during the launch of the Convention on the Future of Europe in Strasbourg on Sunday. “The only answer to authoritarianism is the authority of democracy” which “can only be won through efficiency and speed”, the head of state said at the European Parliament’s headquarters in Strasbourg, which had been transformed for the occasion into a makeshift TV studio. “Our European democracy is a democracy of compromise, of balance, which is a virtue that we must protect, but it is also a weakness when it suffocates in its own procedures,” he said. ....
WARSAW Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has made an offer to the Danish authorities for Poland to buy back doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson after the product was pulled from the Danish vaccination programme due to rare cases of blood clots potentially linked to the vaccine, Polsat News TV has reported. Read more. /// EU PRESIDENCY China Atlantic base to spark ‘strong concern’, Portuguese minister says. Any Chinese military base in the Atlantic Ocean is unnecessary and any such hypothesis would be viewed with “strong concern”, Portugal’s minister of defence, João Gomes Cravinho, has said, adding that it was “not a good idea” to transform this region into a scenario of “geopolitical conflict”. More ....
BRUSSELS Belgium suffered a major cyberattack on Tuesday, Belgian media reported, affecting many of its key institutions. Belnet’s internet network, which connects public institutions, higher education and university establishments, research centers and public administrations, has been the target of a large-scale denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since 12pm on Tuesday, spokeswoman Davina Luyten said. It’s origin is still unknown. Read more. /// EU PRESIDENCY EU-India summit postponed until leaders can attend in person. The EU-India bilateral summit which had been planned to take place during Portugal’s presidency of the Council of the EU has been postponed until the leaders involved can attend in person, Portugal’s minister of foreign affairs confirmed on Tuesday. Read more. ....
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 Babiš calls EU Commission auditors ‘mafia’ for confirming conflict of interest. The European Commission’s final audit report regarding the conflict of interest allegations levelled against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on Friday has triggered a heated reaction from the PM himself. Read more. ....