The European Union’s top diplomat on Thursday, August 12, called on the world’s biggest economies to set tougher climate targets – including a commitment to eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions – in time for a global climate summit in November.
The European Union is set to launch a formal competition probe into Nvidia’s planned $54 billion takeover of British chip designer Arm early next month, the Financial Times reported on Friday, August 27, citing two people with knowledge of the process.
People in France will from Monday need to show a health pass to enjoy usually routine activities such as sipping a coffee in a cafe or travelling on an intercity train, in a plan championed by President Emmanuel Macron to squeeze Covid-19 infections and encourage vaccination.
Today, the EU has reached a crucial milestone with 70% of the adult population now fully vaccinated. In total, over 256 million adults in the EU have now received a full vaccine course.
At least six EU countries insist that the forced deportation of migrants back to Afghanistan continues despite the Taliban’s alarming gains in recent weeks.
France, Germany, and the Netherlands have announced that they were suspending deportations of Afghan migrants as Taliban insurgents continue to make massive territorial gains in the war-torn country.
The number of illegal border crossings into Europe rebounded sharply this year after the COVID-19 pandemic brought numbers to their lowest levels in years in 2020.
Poland has deployed hundreds of troops along its border with Belarus to stop the arrival of migrants seeking to enter the country.
Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said more than 900 soldiers were involved in the operation, adding that barbed wire was also being laid along Polish boundaries.
This week a Polish regional council has voted to remain an “LGBT-free zone” despite a warning from the European Union that it could lose funding.
Keen to avoid a repeat of the chaotic response to the 2015 migrant crisis — when 1.3 million asylum applications were lodged in the bloc — Josep Borrell, the EU’ foreign policy chief, raised the possibility of using an obscure EU law to handle any influx.
“There’s a directive from 2001 that has never been used, and this might be the occasion to use it in order to face the situation of mass migration problem that can affect some member states,” said Borrell referring to the Temporary Protection Directive.
The European Union has evacuated the bulk of its diplomatic corps and local staff from Kabul but will keep a small “core team” on the ground to oversee the process until it’s finally completed.
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