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OLAF, the EU's anti-fraud office in Brussels, is investigating scam offers of vaccines made to governments across the continent

Vaccine fraud

EU probes attempted vaccine scams of almost €13 billion

2 min. 01.03.2021

Oil and gas operations emitted just over 70 million metric tonnes of methane into the atmosphere in 2020

Environment

After historic fall, carbon emissions are now coming back fast

today at 09:40

Germany's economy is feeling the strain of a lockdown which has been in place since mid-November

Pandemic

German unemployment unexpectedly rises as lockdown persists

6 min ago

China ‘worried’ about bubbles in property, foreign markets

Regulators are watching capital inflows into China

2 min. today at 07:13

Exit strategy: marketing your business for sale

In this interview, Christophe Vandendorpe and Pierre Kuntzelmann from EY Luxembourg´s Strategy and Transactions team, discuss prepping your business for a successful sale.

The UK formally left the European Union on December 31

Brexit

€5 billion Brexit support fund contains design risks, ECA warns

01.03.2021

Irregularities with vaccinations have now happened in two hospitals, including at the Centre hospitalier du Nord in Ettelbrück (here pictured)

favouritism

Hospital asks prosecutor to probe how it handled vaccinations

01.03.2021

Nicolas Sarkozy, who was French President from 2007 to 2012, offered to help land a magistrate a job in return for a favour

Corruption

Ex-French President Sarkozy found guilty of corruption

01.03.2021

Luxembourg's economy suffered less of a shock last year than had been previously feared, Statec said

GDP

Luxembourg's economic outlook stronger than previously predicted

01.03.2021

Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Nicolas Schmit

The Eurocrat

Commission to unveil future for a more social Europe

01.03.2021

transparency

Document rulings open Luxembourg bureaucracy a crack

01.02.2021

Diplomacy

EU ambassadors approve Russia sanctions over Navalny jailing

01.03.2021

Economy

Public jobs scheme may stay longer, labour minister says

01.03.2021

Luxembourg

Vaccination

Luxembourg no-shows to get second shot at vaccination

Move to speed up vaccination roll-out comes amid criticism of favouritism in hospitals

by Yannick LAMBERT 3 min. 28.02.2021

#13 - with John Ryan

In the 13th episode of our health Podcast we talked to John Ryan, the Director Public Health at the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG Santé). We asked him about European coordination work in the pandemic, DG Santé’s role in it and how it is involved in the vaccination against COVID-19.