VIENNA
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi’s proposal to press ahead with accession talks with Albania but exclude North Macedonia for now has sparked criticism in Austria, with Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg calling the move “absurd.” Read more.
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EU PRESIDENCY
Portuguese PM: ’unfair’ to blame Germany for vaccine patent stance. Portugal’s prime minister has said he considered arguments that blame Germany for the EU’s scepticism over the waiving of patents on COVID-19 vaccines “unfair”, stressing that most member states follow the same line. More.
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German Greens: The ‘X’ factor in EU’s debate on new genomic techniques