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03.10.2022 / 08:55

European Commission says Freedom of Expression is essential in Sri Lanka , & GSP+ to be assessed soon

COLOMBO (News 1st) – Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission congratulating President Ranil Wickremesinghe on his election as the President of the Democratic of Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has assured its support to the government of Sri Lanka for the efforts to overcome the crisis successfully.Issuing a statement, Ursula von der Leyen noted that at a time of unprecedented challenges faced by the people of Sri Lanka, the European Union remains committed to support Sri Lanka’s efforts to overcome the crisis successfully, including the necessary reforms that will bring the country back to a path of inclusive prosperity and lasting national reconciliation.She further stated that in this process, freedom of expression and assembly, dialogue among all stakeholders, as well as respect for the rule of law and fundamental rights will remain essential.She has also made a reference to the assessment by the European Union on the progress made by Sri Lanka on GSP+ commitments.

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Ukraine should be candidate for EU membership, European Commission says

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (C) gives a press conference alongside EU commissioner for neighbourhood and enlargement Oliver Varhelyi (R) and spokesperson Eric Mamer (L) on the EU membership applications by Ukraine, Moldova and The executive arm of the European Union recommended Friday that Ukraine be granted candidate status to one day join the 27-nation bloc.The promise of membership in a union created to safeguard peace on the continent holds deep symbolism for the nation at war. But it is only the first step in a process that could take decades.And it didn’t silence the guns and artillery that continue to kill civilians and flatten cities as well as sending millions fleeing from their homes since Russia launched its invasion of its neighbor on Feb.

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Brexit minister Lord Frost resigns from Cabinet in Covid plan B protest, reports say

Brexit minister Lord Frost has resigned from the Cabinet, the Mail on Sunday has reported.

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EU nations that use booster shots may face legal risks

European Union countries that decide to use Covid-19 vaccine booster shots may face increased legal risks because the additional dose has not yet been recommended by the EU drugs regulator, the European Commission said today.

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Pfizer and Moderna raise vaccine prices in EU - report

Pfizer and Moderna have raised the prices of their Covid-19 vaccines in the latest European Union supply contracts, according to a report in The Financial Times today.

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EU vaccination campaign catching up with the US - von der Leyen

The European Covid-19 vaccination campaign is gaining speed and catching up with that of the United States, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today.

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Cautious hope on Europe holidays if coronavirus cases driven down to UK levels

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EU study: GMO laws needs overhaul; environmentalists protest

BRUSSELS – A new European Union study finds that the two decade-old legislation on genetically modified organisms should be revamped, a process environmentalists claim will open the door to a new generation of bioengineered crops being allowed into the EU market without proper checks.

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European officials finalizing plans to allow US tourists back this summer

BRUSSELS - The European Union is finalizing plans to allow tourists from the United States to travel to the 27-nation bloc this summer, officials said Monday.More than a year after the EU restricted travel to the region to a bare minimum in a bid to contain the pandemic, the European Commission said it would make a recommendation to member states to allow American travelers back.The commission didn’t say when exactly tourists will be allowed back inside the bloc, and if a reciprocal approach will apply to European tourists willing to travel to the U.S.European Commission spokesman Adalbert Jahnz told reporters that the EU’s executive body is hoping to restore nonessential "trans-Atlantic travel as soon as it is safe to do so."FILE - A

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EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over cuts to vaccine delivery: sources

European Commission is working on legal proceedings against AstraZeneca after the drugmaker cut COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to the European Union, sources familiar with the matter said.The move would mark a further step in an EU plan to sever ties with the Anglo-Swedish company after it repeatedly cut supplies to the bloc, contributing to major delays in Europe’s vaccine rollout. Trudeau, EU leader talk vaccines but no assurance Canada exempt from export controls The news about the legal case was first reported on Thursday by Politico.

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The Latest: EU threatens AstraZeneca with export ban

BERLIN — The European Union’s executive arm is increasing its pressure on pharmaceutical companies to speed up their vaccine delivery to the continent as virus numbers are rising again in many member countries.

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UK to slow Covid vaccine rollout, PM Johnson says delay in shipment from Serum Institute

VACCINE ROWWhile Britain tries to secure more vaccines, it is also facing growing anger from the European Union, which on Wednesday threatened to slap a ban on vaccine exports to Britain.Hancock said that European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen should respect contract law and that Britain expected to get the deliveries it had ordered."There are very significant consequences to breaking contract law," Hancock said.Britain imports Pfizer's vaccine from Europe, but despite the spat, Johnson said people should not be anxious about supplies from the EU."These vaccines are a multinational effort and they are produced as the result of international cooperation and we in the UK will continue to view it in that spirit," he said.Pfizer and

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Ireland to get 46,500 extra vaccine doses this month

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said Ireland is in line for an extra 46,500 vaccines before the end of March after the European Union announced 4 million additional doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine.

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Vaccine hoarding ‘keeps pandemic burning’, WHO chief warns rich countries

COVID-19 vaccine supplies must consider the situation in poorer parts of the world, the World Health Organization said on Friday, warning that hoarding of shots “keeps the pandemic burning.”WHO officials were speaking after the European Commission said it had agreed a plan to control exports of vaccines from the European Union, including to Britain, arguing it needed to do so to ensure its own supplies.

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Not in short supply: Blame for EU's rusty vaccine rollout

APELDOORN – Jos Bieleveldt had a spring in his step when the 91-year-old Dutchman got a coronavirus vaccine this week. But many think that was way too long in coming.

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EU warns Hungary against use of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine

Hungary's plans to import and possibly use Russia's touted Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine raise safety concerns and could damage trust in potential shots, the European Commission said, opening a new front in the EU's fraught relations with Budapest.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's hard line against migration and what critics say is his increasingly authoritarian grip on power - an accusation he has repeatedly denied - as well as his pursuit of close relations with Russia have caused repeated clashes with the European Union.A new showdown is expected on Thursday when EU leaders hold a video conference that may address the bloc's massive COVID rescue plan and seven-year budget, which Hungary and Poland's nationalist governments are

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Outlook for Irish economy highly uncertain - Commission

The European Commission has said the outlook for the Irish economy is "highly uncertain" and that risks are "elevated".

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Europe starts accelerated review of Moderna covid vaccine

vaccine for COVID-19, on the back of similar such review launches for vaccines from AstraZeneca and Pfizer."We just announced that the European Medicines Agency has begun a rolling review of mRNA-1273, our mRNA vaccine candidate against COVID-19," Moderna said in a tweet.Moderna Inc said on Monday its experimental vaccine was 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on interim data from a late-stage clinical trial, becoming the second U.S. company in a week to report results that far exceed expectations.Last week, Pfizer and BioNTech said their vaccine candidate was more than 90% effective.The European Commission said that positive results announced by U.S.

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EU likely to grant Ireland €2.5bn towards TWSS cost

Ireland is in line to get €2.5bn in funding from the EU towards the cost of the Covid-19 Temporary Wages Subsidy Scheme.

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Euro zone 2021 rebound muted by second Covid-19 wave

Ireland's domestic economy was "severely" hit by the coronavirus pandemic in the first half of the year, but strong exports by multinationals have cushioned the fall in growth, according to an economic forecast by the European Commission.

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EU Commission appeals after losing Apple $15B tax case

LONDON – The European Commission said Friday it is appealing a court decision that Apple doesn't have to repay 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in back taxes to Ireland.The appeal comes after the U.S. tech giant scored a big recent legal victory in its long battle with the European Union's executive Commission, which has been trying to rein in multinationals' ability to strike special tax deals with individual EU countries.

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Commission President to deliver State of the Union address

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen will deliver her first State of the Union speech in Brussels this morning.

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Ireland part of tests to link up EU Covid tracing apps

Six EU countries have begun testing technology to link national virus-tracing apps across Europe as a second wave of Covid-19 infections threatens the continent.

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EU offers 400 mln euros to WHO-led COVID-19 vaccine initiative

BRUSSELS : The European Commission said on Monday it would contribute 400 million euros ($476 million) to an initiative led by the World Health Organization to buy COVID-19 vaccines.The initiative, dubbed COVAX, aims to purchase 2 billion doses by the end of 2021 of potential COVID-19 shots from several vaccine makers.The EU Commission is negotiating advance purchases of COVID-19 vaccines with several drugmakers on behalf of the 27 EU states and has said in past weeks EU governments cannot buy vaccines through parallel procurement schemes."Today, the Commission is announcing a 400 million euro contribution to COVAX for working together in purchasing future vaccines to the benefit of low and middle income countries," European Commission

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Hogan tells Commission he adhered to Govt guidelines

EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan has published a timeline of his movements in Ireland when he arrived here from Brussels on 31 July, including details of a trip to Adare, Co Limerick to play golf on 13 August.

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EU strikes a deal with Sanofi for 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Sanofi for 300 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine.The European Commission, the bloc's executive arm which negotiated the agreement, said it would allow all 27 member countries to purchase the vaccine once it was proven to be safe and effective.The announcement comes on the same day the US government said it would provide up to $2.1 billion to Sanofi and GSK for the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, as the world continues to battle the pandemic.As official data revealed coronavirus lockdowns had caused a devastating 12 percent economic contraction in the EU in the second quarter of 2020, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc was doing everything it could to help find a vaccine."We are in advanced

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TWSS 'cornerstone' of Covid-19 response - Donohoe

The Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, has said changes are coming to corporation tax globally and that this will have repercussions for Ireland.

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EU leaders slash science spending in €1.8 trillion deal

Nicholas WallaceFollowing a marathon EU summit in Brussels, national leaders this morning agreed to a €1.8 trillion seven-year budget and pandemic recovery fund that will spend €81 billion on Horizon Europe, the main EU research program. That’s far less than what researchers had hoped for—and €13.5 billion less than a proposal two months ago from the European Commission, the EU executive arm.

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Irish economy to fall 8.5% in 2020 before 2021 recovery

The European Commission has said that Ireland's GDP is projected to contract by 8.5% in 2020.

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Euro zone set for deeper recession, weaker rebound

The euro zone economy will drop deeper into recession this year and rebound less strongly in 2021 than previously thought, the European Commission forecast today, with France, Italy and Spain struggling the most due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Gilead's COVID-19 antiviral remdesivir gets conditional EU clearance

BRUSSELS : The European Commission said on Friday it had given conditional approval for the use of antiviral remdesivir in severe COVID-19 patients following an accelerated review process, making it the region's first therapy to be authorised to treat the virus.The move comes just a week after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) gave its go-ahead for the drug produced by Gilead Sciences to be use in adults and adolescents from 12 years of age who are also suffering from pneumonia and require oxygen support.It also comes just days after the company allocated nearly all of its supply of the antiviral to the United States over the next three months, stirring concerns about availability elsewhere."We will leave no stone unturned in our efforts

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EU Launches Antitrust Probes Into Apple Pay, App Store

The European Union said on Tuesday that it has launched antitrust investigations into Apple’s rules for developers on the distribution of apps via its App Store, as well as Apple Pay. The decision by the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, to look into whether Apple's rules for app developers "violate EU competition rules" comes after complaints by music streaming giant Spotify and an unnamed e-book/audiobook distributor.

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Europe bets R&D spending will bring jobs to battered economy

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed a €1.85 trillion budget that bets on science.

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European coronavirus recovery fund could be over a trillion euro

The European Commission will today launch a recovery plan designed to help the European economy rebound from the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic.

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EU Commission recommends Ireland broaden its tax bases

The European Commission is recommending that Ireland takes all necessary measures to effectively address the Covid-19 pandemic, sustain the economy and support the recovery that follows.

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Coronavirus: Germany, France propose EU economic recovery fund worth 500B euros

BERLIN — The leaders of Germany and France agreed Monday on a one-off 500 billion-euro ($543 billion) fund to help the European Union recover from the coronavirus pandemic, a proposal that would add further cash to an arsenal of financial measures the bloc is readying to cope with the outbreak’s economic fallout.

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EU suspends delivery of 10 million masks over quality issues

BRUSSELS – The European Commission said Thursday it has suspended the delivery of 10 million Chinese masks to member states and Britain after two countries complained about the poor quality of the batches they received.

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EU members to push for formal probe into coronavirus origins, Canadian position unclear

European Union member states plan later this month to push for a formal international probe into how the coronavirus pandemic began and what lessons can be learned to prevent a similar future outbreak.

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European Union predicts ‘recession of historic proportions’ over COVID-19 impact

The European Union predicted Wednesday “a recession of historic proportions this year” due to the impact of the coronavirus as it released its first official estimates of the damage the pandemic is inflicting on the bloc’s economy.

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EU forecasts 'recession of historic proportions' this year

BRUSSELS – The European Union predicted Wednesday “a recession of historic proportions this year” due to the impact of the coronavirus with a drop in output of more than 7%, as it released its first official forecast of the damage the pandemic is inflicting on the bloc’s economy.

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Apple, Google weigh location tracking rules as EU seeks privacy-based virus apps

Doctors want to be able to identify recent encounters of people diagnosed with the virus to quarantine those potentially infected contacts

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Commission confirms bids to sell protective equipment from unnamed manufacturers

The European Commission said it had received bids from undisclosed manufacturers that offered to sell face masks, goggles, overalls and other essential gear to the EU to protect medical staff in the fight against the coronavirus.

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EU proposes triggering crisis clause to allow virus spending

BRUSSELS – The European Union's executive arm on Friday proposed easing the bloc's budget policies so member countries can spend what they need to address the coronavirus pandemic without being subject to deficit limits and other fiscal requirements.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0