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LONDON — Boris Johnson, look away now. The 800-page report from Britain’s official inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic landed Thursday evening. It makes for grim reading for the country’s former prime minister, and much of his top team. Johnson has yet to respond. But the inquiry machine-guns a “too little, too late” government response to the early raging of the virus in 2020, a “toxic culture” in No. 10 Downing Street under the then-PM — and a serious failure to take heed of mistakes made. “Unless the lessons are learned and fundamental change is implemented, the human and financial cost…
Montenegro will tighten visa rules for Russian citizens to be in line with EU policy, which the Western Balkan country hopes to join by 2028. His country intends to implement appropriate measures “very soon”, Prime Minister Milojko Spajić said on Euronews’ The Europe Conversation following the Commission’s first Enlargement Forum in Brussels. Earlier this month, the EU announced stricter visa rules for Russian citizens to enhance security following hybrid drone attacks attributed to Russia. From now on, Russian nationals will no longer be eligible for multiple-entry visas to the EU. Instead, they can only receive single-entry visas, requiring them to…
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The Kremlin hit back Thursday at a European aerospace chief in a feud over tactical nuclear weapons. The board chair of Airbus, René Obermann, called Wednesday on Europe to develop tactical nuclear weapons to deter Russia’s arsenal in Kaliningrad, sparking a response from Moscow, which is no stranger to nuclear saber-rattling. “Kaliningrad is an integral part of Russia,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists, adding, “of course, Russia will do everything necessary to provide its security, stability, and predictability today, and tomorrow.”
Russia is merely playing “lip service” to Donald Trump by drafting a new peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, High Representative Kaja Kallas said on Thursday as she doubled down on calls for Europeans to have a seat at the table. Her warning comes amid a whirlwind of reports about a 28-point blueprint apparently designed behind closed doors by the United States and Russia, without Ukraine’s input. “Our position has not changed. For any peace plan to succeed, it has to be supported by Ukraine, and it has to be supported by Europe,” Kallas said after a meeting…
Euronews gained rare access to the French military aboard a Fennec helicopter as it lifted off over the Orléans–Bricy Air Base, offering an inside look at the aircraft now central to the country’s expanding anti-drone operations. The annual exercise, known as Tactical Airlift Rehearsal under Advanced Non-permissive and Intensive Scenarios (TARANIS) began on 10 November and immerses crews in high-intensity scenarios designed to mirror the realities of modern warfare. Over the course of three weeks, pilots, technicians and support teams rehearse the types of operations France may be called upon to conduct in a rapidly deteriorating international security landscape. A400Ms…
Today is World Television Day, even if the concept of ‘sitting down to watch TV’ is becoming more abstract by the year. Nowadays, fewer families congregate around a single screen to zap between channels, as more and more people prefer their shows on demand and on their computer screens. It’s the era of TV… without the TV. Over the last 10 years, the small ‘discomforts’ that made watching television its own experience have gone. The inconvenience of waiting for your show to come on air was killed by streaming. And there’s no need to even flip through channels to discover…
With multiple legislative processes underway, we are now in an important moment for Europe’s ambition to boost access and be a global leader in innovation. An agile, modernized regulatory system — coupled with supportive intellectual property and access policies — can attract research and development and advanced manufacturing to Europe. This will contribute to the earlier availability of new cures for European patients and a healthier innovative ecosystem. Unfortunately, today we see that Europe is falling behind global competition. Over the last decade, there has been a 10 percent decrease in clinical trials in the European Union, which has led…
Spain’s Supreme Court found the country’s Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz guilty on Thursday of leaking confidential information about the boyfriend of a leading conservative politician and government rival. The court banned García Ortiz from his post for two years in a 5-2 split. The decision was released by the court in a short statement and the complete verdict has not been made available. The government said that it would start the process to nominate a new attorney general in the coming days. The decision is a blow to Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who defended García Ortiz during the…
The UK government has announced plans to make it illegal for tickets to concerts, theatre, comedy, sport and other live events to be resold for more than their original cost. The measure aims to ensure music and sports fans will no longer be ripped off on the ticket resale market. However, there is an exception to the rule: top-selling seats for Grand Slam tennis tournament Wimbledon. UK government bans marked-up resale tickets for concerts and events Ticket touting has become increasingly sophisticated in recent years, according to the UK government. Touts buy large volumes of tickets online, often using automated…