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Only 8% of CEO positions at the largest listed companies in the EU28 in 2023 were women

Britain and its former partners in the European Union have struck a deal to cooperate more on tackling illegal migration, in the latest sign of a thawing in relations between the two sides following Brexit. The British government said in a statement Friday that UK border agencies and Frontex, the EU's border and coast guard agency, will be able to access each other's intelligence to secure borders and tackle organised immigration crime. There will also be joint training, deployments of staff from one side to the other, and collaboration on research and development on new technologies. The agreement, which will be signed later in London, doesn't include any bilateral returns agreement, which means neither side will be obliged to to take any asylum-seekers under burden-sharing arrangements agreed on between the EU's 27 member states. Organised immigration crime and people smuggling are global challenges that require shared solutions and ambitions," UK Home Secretary James Cleverly ...

Germany's Ursula von der Leyen will seek a second term as head of the European Union's powerful Commission in a move that could make her the most significant politician representing the bloc's 450 million citizens in a over a generation. Following five years of leading the 27-nation bloc through multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the first two years of Russia's war in Ukraine, the 65-year-old was put forward by her German Christian Democratic Union party and will only need a further rubber stamp when the party's European umbrella group meets early next month in Bucharest. The party's president, Friedrich Merz, said on Monday that his German party unanimously chose Ursula von der Leyen to be the candidate to stay in her post.

European Union leaders have failed to agree on a 50 billion ($55 billion) aid package for Ukraine and on the renegotiation of the EU budget, EU Council President Charles Michel said Thursday. The financial package could not be endorsed by all 27 leaders, who earlier Thursday agreed to open membership negotiations with Ukraine. The money is aimed at helping the war-torn country weather the Russian invasion. Ukraine is badly counting on the funds to help its damaged economy survive in the coming year. Earlier on Thursday, the European Union decided to open accession negotiations with Ukraine, a momentous moment and stunning reversal for a country at war that had struggled to find the backing for its membership aspirations and long faced obstinate opposition from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. European Council President Charles Michel, who was chairing a Brussels summit of the EU's 27 leaders where the decision was made, called it a clear signal of hope for their people and ou

Another patient on Saxenda, Novo's earlier and less effective weight-loss drug that contains a different active ingredient, reported thoughts of self-injury, the agency said

The European Union's executive arm sought on Wednesday to toughen up pollution restrictions to ensure that harmful pollutants are eliminated by 2050 to potentially save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The European Commission's proposals centre on air, waste and water pollution, and need the backing of the EU parliament and member states before they can be made mandatory. That is likely to take many months. Air pollution is the biggest threat to the bloc's 450 million citizens. The proposals include the doubling of limits to permissible fine air particles by 2030. Such particles make up a significant part of air pollution overall, which the EU says is killing nearly 300,000 people a year. Because effective enforcement of pollution rules has so far proven difficult, the proposals will empower ailing citizens to seek legal redress with better compensation rights and collective action to seek damages. On just air pollution, the Commission estimates that as much as 121 ...

The British government unveiled draft legislation last week which it acknowledges would violate its international legal obligations

The COVAX initiative aims to purchase for all countries in the world 2 billion doses of potential Covid-19 shots from several vaccine makers by the end of 2021

The decision is a setback for European efforts to clamp down on what the authorities believe is anti-competitive behaviour

The deal is the latest by AstraZeneca to pledge supply of its vaccine to governments who have scrambled to agree advance purchases of promising coronavirus vaccines

South Sudan is experiencing worst levels of food insecurity since independence with severe hunger

Border check will continue in Austria, Germany, Denmark and Sweden and non-member Norway