The Commission adopted on Wednesday the Funding strategy that will ensure all necessary elements are already in place as borrowing under the temporary pandemic recovery instrument NextGenerationEU to be financed on the most advantageous terms.

Romania’s PM Florin Citu announced on Wednesday he has fired Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu after weeks of mounting tensions over how to handle the new coronavirus pandemic, potentially endangering the centre-right coalition government, Reuters reported.

People aged under 60 who have been given a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Germany will receive a different jab for their second dose, federal and regional health ministers agreed. Germany announced on 30 March that it would no longer offer the two-dose AstraZeneca vaccine to people aged under 60 due to concerns over a possible link to rare cases of blood clots.

The EU Commission has decided not to renew COVID-19 vaccine contracts next year with companies such as AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Italian daily La Stampa reported on Wednesday citing a source from the Italian Health Ministry.

The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, spoke with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken on Tuesday. It happened just 20 days after their previous meeting in Brussels.

Two weeks after the EP’s decision to accelerate the approval of the Digital Green Certificate, the Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) discussed on Tuesday different aspects of this recently proposed 'document' that should facilitate safe and free movement, with EU Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders and with the European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski.

Spain will press ahead with its economic recovery plan despite an expected delay to the arrival of European Union support funds, financing initial investments via government borrowing, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday.

In an effort to reassert its authority in combatting the coronavirus pandemic and stem a third wave of infections sweeping the country, Germany's central government agreed today on a set of national measures - including night-time curfews. The legislation, however, is taking decisions out of the hands of the state governments in all cases of emergency situations similar to the one Germany and the better part of the world are in right now.

For a concerning expansion and evolution of serious and organised crime in the EU, warns the newly published by Europol Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment, the EU SOCTA 2021. The Hague-based EU’s law enforcement agency is releasing this paper every four years, presenting a detailed analysis of the threat of serious and organised crime facing the Union.

'IoApro' (IOpen) anti-lockdown protesters threw firecrackers and objects at police in Rome's San Silvestro square on Monday, ANSA reported.The demonstrators, some wearing handcuffs and many with their hands raised, asked to be able to head towards the parliament building. They were met by police in riot gear.