2021-03-10

USA

US Congress approves Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill

The White House described it as a "historic legislative package that will turn the page on this pandemic, deliver direct relief to Americans, and jumpstart our economy."

10/03/2021

World News

'No indication' AstraZeneca COVID jab led to Austria death, says EMA

Austria suspended the use of an AstraZeneca vaccine batch on Sunday following the death of a woman and the hospitalisation of another.

10/03/2021

Germany

Former press officer for Angela Merkel convicted of spying for Egypt

Federal prosecutors said he had begun spying in July 2010 on instructions from the Egyptian embassy in Berlin.

10/03/2021

Travel News

Will Harry and Meghan’s revelations reduce visitor numbers to Britain?

We spoke to travel experts to find out if tourists could be less inclined to visit the UK following the couple’s comments.

10/03/2021

World News

EU's much-criticised vaccination plan 'better than the alternative'

The EU's vaccination strategy has come under heavy criticism for being too slow but some say the alternative would have been worse.

10/03/2021

Green News

UK consumers will soon have a 'right to repair' on goods they buy

Fixing and updating electronics is cheaper and more energy efficient than buying new ones.

10/03/2021

Spain

Puigdemont has lost his immunity from prosecution. What happens next?

The decision by MEPs will likely extend the three-and-a-half-year legal saga on the Catalan separatists' fate by months, if not years, as many avenues for appeal remain open.

10/03/2021

Belarus

EU rejects claim that European funds financed Lukashenko's 'goldmine'

A new documentary film alleges that EU funds contributed to financing Lukashenko's regime and his lavish lifestyle. The bloc has rejected the accusations as "completely unfounded and baseless."

10/03/2021

Spain

Madrid set for early elections after regional government collapses

Spain's political landscape has been shaken after the regional government in Madrid split and called an early election.

10/03/2021

Europe News

Nearly half of EU citizens uninterested in having say on bloc's future

A Eurobarometer survey found that 48% of citizens do not want to be involved in the Conference on the Future of Europe, a continent-wide consultation of EU citizens on want they want from the bloc.

10/03/2021

United Kingdom

Sarah Everard: UK police discover 'human remains' in woodland

Sarah Everard, 33, vanished while walking home from a friend's apartment in London on March 3.

10/03/2021

World News

Lockdown generation: Europe's students in despair as pandemic lingers

Euronews looks at the toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken on Europe's students and how governments across the bloc have responded to support their youth.

10/03/2021

Greece

COVID-19: Greece to open borders to foreign tourists by mid-May

Greece and Cyprus have both unveiled their summer tourism plans as vaccination accelerates.

10/03/2021

Angola

The bikers making Angola the ride of their lives

In partnership with Governo de Angola

Euronews follows a motorcycle group riding around Angola promoting tourism and doing social work.

10/03/2021

No Comment

Lava thrown into the air as Europe's most active volcano erupts again

It's the 11th major eruption in the past few weeks.

10/03/2021

Real Economy

The race to stop Europe’s young and jobless from becoming a ‘lost generation’

In partnership with The European Commission

The pandemic has caused unemployment to rise throughout Europe. The under 29's have been particularly affected and are now having to compete with the newly unemployed with more experience. We take a look at what the EU is doing to improve employment for young people.

10/03/2021

Poland

Police hunt sparked after grandfather picks up wrong boy from nursery

The 80-year-old man only realised he had not collected his grandson when the police arrived at his house.

10/03/2021

Climate

‘Tired, tacky, dangerous’: British Gas ads criticised for greenwashing

The UK's biggest energy supplier is accused of having a "worryingly simplistic" understanding of green issues.

10/03/2021

World News

MEPs to debate making the EU an LGBT 'freedom zone'

The European Parliament is scheduled to debate a motion that would declare the entire 27-member EU to be a "freedom zone" for LGBT people.

10/03/2021

Nature

Why kelp forests are crucial in the fight against climate change

Underwater forests of kelp are among the most productive and diverse ecosystems on the planet.

10/03/2021

World News

French, Germans and Italians unhappy over vaccine rollout - survey

Three-quarters of respondents in France (75%) and Germany (77%) and more than two-thirds in Italy (68%) were unhappy with the vaccine rollout.

10/03/2021

Europe News

Brussels' new digital strategy comes 'way too late', MEP warns

Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager laid out the EU's digital aims for the decade in Brussels on Tuesday, telling reporters that she wants the bloc to become "digitally sovereign" by 2030.

10/03/2021

Russia

Russia 'slows' Twitter over failure to remove banned content

Russia's media watchdog accuses the social network of failing to remove content related to drug use, suicide and child pornography. Twitter is also used widely by supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

10/03/2021

World News

2021 World Press Photo Contest nominees announced

The strongest photographs that tell the story of an unprecedented year. The World Press Photo Foundation selected this year's nominees for the 2021 Photo Contest.

10/03/2021

World

Armenian anti-government protesters blockade Parliament in Yerevan

Armenian anti-government protesters blockade Parliament in Yerevan calling for the Prime Minister's resignation

10/03/2021

World News

Dozens held after Belgian-Dutch investigators crack coded network

The vast police operations followed a two-year investigation which broke up an encrypted communications network popular with criminals.

10/03/2021

World News

Euroviews. EU nations must provide midwifery care for home births | View

Throughout Central and Eastern Europe, institutional mechanisms are still being used to hamper midwifery practice, creating conditions where midwifery is possible in theory but not in practice.

10/03/2021

Greece

Greece: 3 police officers wounded in protest against police violence

5,000 protesters marched in Athens after footage of a police officer beating a man with a baton became viral.

10/03/2021

Japan

Euroviews. How we rose from Fukushima disaster with a renewables vision | View

On Thursday (March 11) it's 10 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.

10/03/2021

World News

Johnson rebukes EU's Michel: 'UK has not blocked vaccine exports'

"This pandemic has put us all on the same side in the battle for global health. We oppose vaccine nationalism in all its forms," said the UK prime minister.

10/03/2021