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Presidents of the three European Union institutions, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission Monday attended the official signing ceremony for the Regulation on the EU Digital COVID Certificate, marking the end of the legislative process.
EU leaders clear way for the Digital COVID Certificate
BRUSSELS — Presidents of the three European Union institutions, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission Monday attended the official signing ceremony for the Regulation on the EU Digital COVID Certificate, marking the end of the legislative process.In a joint statement, European Parliament Presidents David Sassoli, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister of Portugal Antonio Costa said that "the EU Digital COVID Certificate is a symbol of what Europe stands for."In their statement, the officials said that they agreed on the EU Digital COVID Certificate regulation in a record time of 62 days, they worked through the legislative process, and built the technical backbone of the system, and were able to issue the EU...
June 14, 2021

EU leaders clear way for the Digital COVID Certificate

File photo of shops in Oxford Street, London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on Monday expected to announce that England's remaining COVID-19 restrictions will not be lifted on June 21 as planned.
Johnson expected to announce delay to full reopening in England
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on Monday expected to announce that England's remaining COVID-19 restrictions will not be lifted on June 21 as planned.Johnson told British media from the G7 summit in Cornwall on Sunday that the government "is looking at the data"."The road map was always cautious but irreversible and in order to have an irreversible road map, we've got to be cautious," he added.Foreign Minister Dominic Raab stressed that the government doesn't "want to yo-yo back in and out of measures" during an interview with the BBC on Sunday."We've got to be data and evidence-driven," he went on, highlighting that the "critical link" between transmissions and hospitalizations" is "probably...
June 14, 2021

Johnson expected to announce delay to full reopening in England

Thousands of right-wing protesters took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday against the Spanish government's plans to pardon 12 Catalan politicians who were convicted over a failed independence attempt in 2017.
Thousands protest in Madrid at plans to pardon Catalan separatists
MADRID — Thousands of right-wing protesters took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday against the Spanish government's plans to pardon 12 Catalan politicians who were convicted over a failed independence attempt in 2017.The Spanish nationalist Vox party, centrist Ciudadanos and conservative People's Party were among those rallying in Colon Square.Leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, said: “The pardons are, first of all, a betrayal to all the Catalans who suffered the separatist coup of 2017 and who were abandoned to the mercy of separatism. It is also an act of betrayal to all the Spanish people who respect law and the constitution."In 2019 Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatists on sedition charges for their part in organizing an unauthorized referendum on...
June 14, 2021

Thousands protest in Madrid at plans to pardon Catalan separatists

G7 leaders plenary: Building back better from COVID19, Cornwall, UK. — courtesy Karwai Tang/G7 Cornwall 2021
Landmark G7 agreement pledges 870 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, half by end-2021
GENEVA — A senior UN official welcomed on Sunday, the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialized nations’ commitment to immediately share at least 870 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, supporting global access and helping to end the acute phase of the pandemic.“Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines represents the clearest pathway out of this pandemic for all of us — children included, and commitments announced by G7 members...are an important step in this direction”, Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, said in a statement.Building on the momentum of the G20 Global Health Summit and the Gavi COVAX AMC Summit, in a landmark agreement at the G7 Summit — under way in Cornwall, United Kingdom — the global leaders made the pledge, with the aim...
June 13, 2021

Landmark G7 agreement pledges 870 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, half by end-2021

US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson meet on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in London.
Biden calls G7 'extraordinary, collaborative and productive meeting'
LONDON — US President Joe Biden has closed his first Group of Seven leaders' summit, saying it was an "extraordinary, collaborative and productive meeting."Biden on Sunday praised agreements to help the world combat COVID-19, to help developing countries grow while fighting climate change and backing a minimum tax on multinational firms.He spoke at a news conference in Newquay, England, after the conclusion of a three-day summit in nearby Carbis Bay of leaders of the world's largest economies.The decision by the G7 leaders to endorse a global minimum tax on multinational corporations was widely anticipated after finance ministers embraced placing a global minimum tax of at least 15% on large multinational companies to stop corporations from using tax havens to avoid...
June 13, 2021

Biden calls G7 'extraordinary, collaborative and productive meeting'

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen seen with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the G7 summit in Cromwell.
Ursula von der Leyen says G7 global strategy has 'no strings attached' unlike China
LONDON — The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has told Euronews that plans discussed by G7 leaders to help the world's developing countries come "without strings attached", in comparison to China.In an exclusive interview from the G7 summit in southwest England, she said the Group of Seven nations and China were "strong competitors" in the economic field and "systemic rivals" when it came to human rights and democracy.On Saturday G7 leaders backed a vast global infrastructure plan for developing and emerging countries to rival the Chinese "Belt and Road" project. The "Build Back Better World" initiative had been announced earlier by US President Joe Biden.The Commission president referred to the EU's own...
June 13, 2021

Ursula von der Leyen says G7 global strategy has 'no strings attached' unlike China

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking at a news conference towards the end of the summit in Cornwall in southwest England. — courtesy Twitter
Johnson confirms G7 to donate one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses by end of 2022
LONDON — The G7 nations have agreed to distribute globally more than a billion vaccines against the coronavirus between now and the end of 2022 in the hope of eradicating the pandemic, Boris Johnson announced on Sunday.Speaking at a news conference towards the end of the summit in Cornwall in southwest England, the British Prime Minister added that leaders of the world's leading economies who form the Group of Seven had committed themselves to make the move either by financing them or via the COVAX scheme for sharing vaccines.Earlier, both the International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization warned the leaders of the G7 nations that their strategy to help beat the coronavirus pandemic does not go far enough.Speaking on Saturday, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned...
June 13, 2021

Johnson confirms G7 to donate one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses by end of 2022

Queen Elizabeth had both raised eyebrows and amused people by insisting on using a ceremonial sword to cut one of her birthday cakes. — courtesy Twitter
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her official 95th birthday
LONDON — For the second year running, Queen Elizabeth II's official birthday has been marked by an event dubbed a mini Trooping the Color at Windsor Castle just outside London.The pandemic meant the military commemoration of the monarch's official birthday was staged in the quadrangle of her Berkshire home.The Queen was accompanied by the Duke of Kent as her husband Prince Philip died in April a few weeks before his 100th birthday.Soldiers who have supported communities and the UK's National Health Service during the pandemic were a part of the parade.The scientists behind some of the most significant advancements in the battle against COVID -19 have been commended in the Queen's Birthday Honors list.The head of the team that helped produce the Astra Zeneca vaccine got a...
June 13, 2021

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her official 95th birthday

File photo of Sir David Attenborough.
Climate decisions 'most important in human history', Attenborough warns G7 leaders
LONDON — G7 leaders are talking about climate change on the final day of their summit in England, with a warning from one prominent naturalist ringing in their ears.Broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough said their decisions are "the most important in human history", adding that urgent action is needed to avoid human-based environmental catastrophe.All G7 countries have pledged to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, but many environmentalists say that will be too late. At the summit in Cornwall, the leaders also plan to announce new green-financing plans to help poorer countries reduce carbon emissions.Attenborough, who is due to address the leaders on Sunday by video, said global warming and loss of biodiversity are “beyond doubt,” as is the fact...
June 13, 2021

Climate decisions 'most important in human history', Attenborough warns G7 leaders

NATO headquarters
NATO needs to confront China, but Russia remains 'most immediate threat': US aide
BRUSSELS — NATO needs to confront the challenges posed by China, but Russia remains the "most immediate threat to the common security of the allies," Douglas D. Jones, the US Chargé d'Affaires, told Euronews.Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will physically meet in Brussels on Monday for a high-stakes summit where both Russia and China are set to feature prominently on the agenda.US President Joe Biden intends to use his trip to Europe as an opportunity to assemble a coalition of like-minded democratic nations to stand up to the rising global power of Beijing.Biden sees China as America's most formidable adversary. "We're in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st Century," he told the US Congress in...
June 13, 2021

NATO needs to confront China, but Russia remains 'most immediate threat': US aide

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