Biden’s plans for digital government set an example the UK and Europe must be willing to follow

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Joe Biden seems set on transforming US administration (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) This week, days before Joe Biden had even stepped foot in the White House as US President, he showed a greater commitment to digitally-enabled government than most … Read More

EU-China Investment Agreement Casts Europe As A Great Power – OpEd

As in many other respects, 2020 was a very turbulent year in the context of great power rivalry and transatlantic relations. The most striking examples in this context were the COVID-19 pandemic, US-China great power rivalry, and the end of … Read More

Number of foreign tourists visiting Spain from abroad in November fell 90%

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MADRID (Reuters) – International tourist arrivals to Spain fell 90% year-on-year in November, official data showed on Tuesday, after authorities imposed new travel restrictions to curb an increase in coronavirus infections. Over the first eleven months of the year, some … Read More

Macron uses presidential address to denounce Brexit “lies and false promises”

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“This evening for the first time, a country — the UK — will leave the EU.” Emmanuel Macron used his New Year’s Eve presidential address to the nation to denounce the “lies and false promises” that led to the UK … Read More

European Union Greenlights BioNTech-Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine After Agency Gives Safety Approval

A person enters the European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dec. 21, 2020, where the EMA’s human medicines committee is holding an exceptional meeting to conclude the evaluation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. -AP (AMSTERDAM) — The European Union on … Read More

France putting EU at risk of hard Brexit for fishing rights Central Europe won’t benefit from

France rejected Hungary and Poland’s veto of the EU budget, but now plans to veto an EU deal with Britain. On Dec. 6, when Europe’s attention was focused on the risk of a Polish-Hungarian veto against the EU budget and … Read More

Sweden edges closer to NATO membership

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Parliament voted in favor of the NATO option — allowing the country to join the alliance in future. In August, Sweden deployed troops to its Baltic island of Gotland following a security scare triggered by Russian warships | Tom Little/AFP via … Read More

Brexit talks: Barnier says deal ‘still possible’ as French minister slams UK ‘madness’

European Union’s negotiator Michel Barnier arrives for a meeting of the representatives of the Governments of the EU Member States, Brussels, December 14, 2020. The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said he still has the firm belief that a … Read More

UK, Germany, France calls Iran nuclear moves ‘deeply worrying’

The U.K., Germany, and France on Monday released a statement calling recent moves by Iran in relation to its nuclear program “deeply worrying” — just as the fate of the 2015 nuclear deal, and the U.S. role in it, remains … Read More

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