EU inches closer to Covid certificate for travel
The European Parliament has agreed its position on how a Covid certificate should work, bringing the EU closer to launching a document to open up travel within the bloc
‘Digital currency’: A central bank alternative to bitcoin?
Faced with increased popularity for online payments and cryptocurrencies, central banks are exploring new units of their own. How will these digital currencies differ from cryptocurrencies?
Brexit: how it started, how it’s going
The European Parliament is set to vote on the EU's divorce settlement with Britain, the 1,246-page Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Here's what the post-Brexit pact sets out in key areas:
Europe’s Covid recovery fund starts to fall into place
Negotiations were difficult and the plan got off to a slow start, but Europe's huge post-coronavirus recovery fund may make its first payments in July after two important obstacles were passed
Swiss-EU relations: It’s complicated
As Switzerland's president headed to Brussels to discuss concluding a long-delayed "framework agreement" rejigging some of his country's most important deals with the EU, here is an overview of a unique relationship
Germany faces up to unpredictable post-Merkel era
A sea change in German politics began this week with two leading parties announcing their candidates to succeed Angela Merkel at September's elections, when the veteran chancellor will bow out
EU unveils ‘landmark’ AI rules to curb Big Brother fears
The EU unveils a plan to regulate the sprawling field of artificial intelligence, aimed at easing public fears of Big Brother-like abuses by imposing checks on technology deemed "high-risk"
Clot questions over J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) says blood clots should be listed as a "very rare" side effect of the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine. What we know about the jab and similar AstraZeneca shot:
European Super League football shows shift to ‘closed shop’
The formation of a European Super League highlights a shift by the world's richest football clubs away from sporting merit and towards a "closed shop" that gives them more financial security
Brexit sparks £1 trillion UK assets switch to EU: study
UK banks and insurers have shifted more than £1.0 trillion to the European Union in response to Brexit, according to a study by the 'New Financial' think-tank
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