EU Parliament: Travel safely with the EU Digital Covid Certificate
Link Find out how the new EU Digital Covid Certificate will allow you to travel...
EU Parliament: Q&A on the EU Digital Covid Certificate
Link The European Parliament and Council negotiators agreed on an EU Digital Covid Certificate to...
EP Civil Liberties Committee endorses EU Digital Covid Certificate
Common format for certificates proving vaccination, test result or recovery accepted across EU Should facilitate...
Team Europe: €1bn initiative on manufacturing and access to vaccines, medicines, and health technologies in Africa
Link Brussels, 21 May 2021 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced today at the G20...
Getting a vaccine patent waiver is not enough, says WTO chief to EP Trade Committee
Link Parliament’s Committee on Trade debated on Thursday how to increase vaccine production effectively with...
COVID-19 vaccines: EU Commission signs 3rd contract with BioNTech-Pfizer for another 1.8bn doses
Link Brussels, 20 May 2021 Today, the European Commission signed a third contract with the...
Covid-19 vaccines: MEPs clash on proposed waiver of patents
MEPs disagreed about whether the EU should support proposals to lift patents for Covid-19 vaccines...
Bruegel: Would patent waivers solve the problem of accelerating vaccine supplies to poorer countries?
Is a patent waiver an effective solution to the problem of supplying vaccines to medium...
EU’s local and regional leaders call for patent waiver on COVID-19 vaccines
The European Committee of the Regions has called on the European Union to temporarily waive...
EU Commission complements its vaccines policy with a strategy on Covid-19 therapeutics
Brussels, 6 May 2021 The European Commission is today complementing the successful EU Vaccines Strategy with a strategy...
Joint Statement by EU, WHO, and UNICEF: “Inequitable access to health technologies between and within countries hurts us all”
Brussels, 26 April 2021 On the occasion of European Immunization Week 2021, Stella Kyriakides, Commissioner for...
EU Commissioner Kyriakides comments on the review by the European Medicines Agency of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
Link 23 April 2021 Brussels Following a formal request by the European Commission, the European...
EU Commission President von der Leyen’s remarks at meeting with Belgian PM De Croo, Pfizer CEO Bourla, and BioNTech co-founder Türeci
Thank you so much, Dr Bourla, dear Albert. Thank you very much for the hospitality....
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) publishes guidance for adjusting non-pharmaceutical interventions based on vaccination status
Link: Interim guidance on the benefits of full vaccination against COVID-19 for transmission and implications for...
COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen: EMA finds possible link to very rare cases of unusual blood clots with low blood platelets
News 20/04/2021 EMA confirms overall benefit-risk remains positive At its meeting of 20 April 2021,...
Vaccines approval: Renew Europe alarmed about political pressure and threats in Slovakia
European Parliament Renew Europe group strongly rejects political pressure and attacks on independent scientific and...
COVID19: MEPs discuss faster authorisation for vaccines adapted to variants
MEPs will discuss and greenlight a new procedure to facilitate and accelerate the EU-wide approval...
Coronavirus: EU Commission dedicates €123 million to combat the threat of variants
Brussels, 7 April 2021 The Commission is mobilising €123 million from Horizon Europe, the new...
COVID-19 – EU Council Presidency on the agreement reached on European solidarity vaccines
Following the informal video conference on 25 March 2021, the members of the European Council...
Over 300 companies participate in first EU matchmaking event to scale-up COVID-19 vaccine production
Today, the Commission is hosting the first pan-European matchmaking event with over 300 participating companies...
EPP Group: Greens and Communists try to block rapid rollout of vaccination certificate
The EPP Group regrets that the majority of the Greens and Communists and many Socialists...
EU Parliament fast-tracks procedure to adopt Digital Green Certificate by June
To facilitate its adoption by the summer, MEPs decided to accelerate the approval of the...
Vaccine disinformation: EU Commission receives new reports by online platforms Twitter, TikTok, Google and Microsoft
The Commission publishes today the new reports by Twitter, TikTok, Google, and Microsoft on measures they took...
EU Commission Answer to a written question – Purchase of COVID-19 vaccines by Member States without a joint purchasing agreement
See question(s) : P-000210/2021 EN P-000210/2021 Answer given by Ms Kyriakides on behalf of the European...
EU Commission Answer to a written question – Seafarers as a priority group for vaccination against the COVID-19 virus
See question(s) : P-000813/2021 EN P-000813/2021 Answer given by Ms Kyriakides on behalf of the European...
COVID-19 vaccines: EU Commission strengthens transparency and authorisation mechanism for exports
24 March 2021 Brussels Today, the European Commission has introduced the principles of reciprocity and...
Remarks by Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis on export transparency, authorisation mechanism and an accelerated approval of adapted vaccines against COVID-19 variants
24 March 2021 Brussels “Check against delivery” Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Today, the Commission...
EU Commission changes procedure to facilitate and speed up approval of adapted vaccines against COVID-19 variants
Today, as an immediate action under the HERA Incubator, the new European bio-defence preparedness plan...
MEPs quiz EMA Executive Director Emer Cooke on the evaluation and authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines
MEPs will quiz EMA Executive Director Emer Cooke on the latest developments regarding the evaluation...
Statement following the European Medicines Agency review of the COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca
Following the European Medicines Agency’s safety committee’s review of the COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca at its...
EP Think tank: Coronavirus: Vaccination debates [What Think Tanks are thinking]
Written by Marcin Grajewski As the second wave of the coronavirus passes, new infections and...
EU Commission Statement on BioNTech-Pfizer top-up for Quarter 2 deliveries
The Commission and BioNTech-Pfizer have come to an agreement on the accelerated delivery of 10...
EU Parliament on Covid-19 variants: state of play and impact on vaccination in the EU
Existing Covid-19 vaccines should be effective against the new variants, experts told MEPs on 15...
Statement of the EU Commission on the allocation of doses of vaccines under the Advance Purchase Agreements
The allocation of doses of vaccines under the Advance Purchase Agreements has followed a transparent...
COVID-19 variants: MEPs share concerns about efficacy of vaccines
On Monday, Members of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee debated with experts...
COVID-19 vaccines: MEPs to debate concerns about virus mutation
MEPs will address their questions to experts on COVID-19 variants and the vaccines’ efficacy against...