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Europe’s mink farms should regularly test their animals for Covid-19 and carry out sequencing until the risk of the virus spreading to humans is eliminated, two EU agencies said Thursday. The European Commission ordered the report…

Companies producing Covid-19 vaccines “must deliver”, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday as tensions mounted between her European Commission and pharmaceutical firms over delayed deliveries. “Europe invested billions to help…

The European Union began a vaccine rollout Saturday, even as countries in the bloc were forced back into lockdown by a new strain of the virus, believed to be more infectious, that continues to spread from Britain. The pandemic has…

The EU and Britain's chief Brexit negotiators will make a last-ditch bid to break months of deadlock on Sunday, as trade talks limp back to Brussels, surviving on borrowed time. Michel Barnier and his UK counterpart David Frost will once…

Danske Bank said on Thursday it will cut up to 1,600 jobs in the next 6-12 months as part of a cost-reduction programme that runs to 2023. Denmark’s biggest bank is trying to get costs and compliance under control and had already warned of…

Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela has died aged 59, local media reported Monday. She was ambassador to Denmark at the time of her death. “The 59-year-old daughter of former…

Some European Union member states have announced new steps to reopen their borders with the improvement of the COVID-19 situation inside their countries. German Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, announced on Wednesday that Germany would…

Four weeks after Denmark began easing its lockdown, Danes on Monday returned to cafes and restaurants, confident that the coronavirus outbreak is under control. Denmark last month became the first country in Europe to reopen schools,…

Scandinavian airline SAS said Tuesday it would lay off up to 5,000 employees as the new coronavirus pandemic has wiped out demand for air travel which would not return to normal for “some years”. The 5,000 jobs represent about 40 percent…

The World Health Organization’s European office said Thursday that despite some “optimistic signs” in some of the countries worst hit by the new coronavirus, the number of cases was rising and approaching one million in the continent alone.…