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Despite growing protests, French lawmakers have moved a step closer to passing a bill that would introduce obligatory coronavirus vaccinations for certain professions and condition access to cultural and leisure spaces, as well as travel, on a health pass showing
BRUSSELS — The European Commission said it would freeze two separate lawsuits against the U.K. “at this stage” as it wants to “continue constructive discussions” with London over trade arrangements in Northern Ireland. Brussels launched a twin-track legal action against
The development of such technologies has the potential to completely transform the way that we view health care, offering patients the ability to recover from illnesses that have until now been considered incurable — such as neurodegenerative diseases, which can
WARSAW — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda is usually quick to congratulate any Polish athletic success, but he was uncharacteristically slow after women rowers won the country’s first medal of the Tokyo Olympic Games, a silver, on Wednesday. It took a
Poland’s government is cracking down on illegal waste shipments and proposing new laws to toughen penalties for environmental crimes. But those measures are unlikely to do much to improve the country’s poor record in meeting EU recycling and waste targets,
Move over, Dublin. It’s Luxembourg that’s kicking off Europe’s era of big-ticket privacy enforcement. More than three years since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation came online, the hefty fines it promised are finally materializing. In financial filings out Friday,
Europe is escalating its antitrust campaign against Silicon Valley, and the next tech deal in its sights is Facebook’s planned acquisition of customer interaction platform Kustomer. The European Commission is expected to open an in-depth investigation on Monday into the
CHICAGO – A sea of maskless, sweaty, thrashing bodies filled Chicago’s Grant Park, pushing up against the performance stage as acts like Miley Cyrus screamed into the microphone. Roughly 100,000 people a night poured into the four-day long Lollapalooza, one
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority announced on Friday that it opened an investigation into Facebook’s planned acquisition of customer interaction platform Kustomer. Facebook announced the purchase in November last year, saying it hopes Kustomer’s integration will improve customer interactions
ANTI-LOCKDOWN PROTESTERS ARRESTED IN BERLIN: Even though a court has banned protests, thousands of people took to the streets of Berlin to protest COVID-19 restrictions on Sunday, according to Deutsche Welle. The police said almost 5,000 people took part in