BRATISLAVA
Slovakia faces a political crisis after two junior coalition parties spoke about leaving the governing coalition over the purchase of two million doses of the Russian vaccine negotiated by Prime Minister Igor Matovič. Marián Koreň has more.
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EU PRESIDENCY
EU states find common ground in first debate over EU trade policy. Portugal’s foreign minister Augusto Santos Silva said the first discussion among EU member states over the European Union’s future trade policy was “an excellent starting point,” although tough debates on trade and climate policy have yet to be addressed. More
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BERLIN
Merz announces Bundestag candidacy. Former candidate for CDU chair, Friedrich Merz, confirmed that he will run for a seat in the Bundestag in September’s elections on Tuesday. Read more.
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League MEPs signed a parliamentary note on Tuesday denouncing the EU s chaotic handling of the coronavirus pandemic and its vaccine procurement strategy. The Italian politicians, led by Matteo Salvini, congratulated Austria and Denmark after the two EU rebel countries agreed to get more vaccine doses from Israel in a blow to the EU Commission.
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WARSAW | BRATISLAVA. Polish President Andrzej Duda held a phone call on Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the possibility of cooperating on vaccines. However, the call prompted a reaction from Poland’s former prime minister Donald Tusk, the current chief of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), who called on Poles and Europeans not to be “naive” about the intentions of Moscow and Beijing.
“I warn against such a naive approach to these very cynical players. I am talking about the Chinese and Russian authorities. And above all, I would warn the Polish authorities, and also other European countries, against buying and trying to vaccinate their citizens with a vaccine that has not been tested,” Tusk said.