Members of the European Parliament have issued Brexit negotiators an ultimatum – get a finalized deal on their desks by midnight on Sunday or face the chances of it not being ratified by the end of the year.

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Huge 100km queues at Channel ports are feared – even with a Brexit deal – if firms fail to prepare. The UK government has given the warning with 7,000 lorries crossing from south-east England to France each day.

A customs delay of just a couple of minutes could have a domino effect causing miles...

The start date is dependent on the approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab by the European Medicines Agency, with an announcement expected on December 21. 🇪🇺💉

But how have member states reacted to the decision?

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Chinese student Xiaoyun Zhang says she would rather stay at university in London than risk restrictions and go home for Christmas.

Home for Xiaoyun is a 10 hour flight and some 4,000 miles away. Some of Xiaoyun’s Chinese friends made that journey in the summer and never returned. So Xiaoyun is p...

Have your Christmas present orders still not arrived? You may be waiting a little while longer, as congestion continues at UK ports as a result of the pandemic. 🎁

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In this first of two specials, The Agenda’s Stephen Cole looks back on the year 2020 and how the pandemic changed the world and shaped life as we now know it.

Italy was the first European country to face the full force of COVID-19 so we re-visit the situation with Salvatore Maggiore, Head of Chi...

Hungary's chocolate sales have been steadily falling, despite Christmas usually being a sweet spot for the country's confectioners.

Typically, eight million chocolate Santas and 3,500 tonnes of szaloncukor, the country's traditional tree-hanging holiday candy, are bought every year. But in 2020...

Germany is preparing to begin its mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign as EU countries await final approval to roll out the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.

Indoor arenas, concert halls, supermarkets and hotels are all being converted into temporary vaccination facilities to ensure millions of people can be v...

France has now broken through the barrier of 60,000 deaths from COVID-19. The news comes as the French president Emmanuel Macron continues to isolate after testing positive for the virus on December 17.

The French prime minister's mantra of 'Test, trace, isolate' now applies to the very highest...

In this week's episode of RAZOR we find out about bee friendly corridors and how scientists are searching for clues about the origins of life.

Buglife is a UK wide organization dedicated to the conservation of bees, pollinators and all other invertebrates. Of the UK's 270 bee species, 126 are no...

Just outside Oxford is an extraordinary machine, Diamond Light Source - the UK’s synchrotron. Inside this massive building electrons are accelerated to near the speed of light creating a type of giant microscope which allows scientists to examine matter in minute detail, revealing the atomic stru...

Serbia has been forced to take the Sputnik-V as well as the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine to cover a shortfall. The Pfizer vaccine doses it will be given will be enough for less than five percent of the population. It is feared that wealthier countries will take most of the supply.

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Plastic pollution has soared during the pandemic but a UK charity is challenging people to change their habits, clean up the environment and reduce plastic waste.

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When lockdown began in March huge numbers of arts and cultural venues across the UK were forced to close their doors.

With live audiences missing, some venues sought new ways to connect with people. Liverpool's Cavern Club, famous for launching numerous bands including The Beatles, was able to ...

Should key workers and the young be ahead of the elderly when it comes to administering COVID-19 vaccines? Oxford University’s Albert Giubilini argues the case.

He believes that with the vaccine in short supply it needs to be considered whether those at greatest risk of catching the virus need t...

Over 40 countries have now announced they would be banning flights to and from Britain amid the emergence of a new, highly contagious virus strain.

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The deadline for the EU and UK to agree a trade deal is December 31 but that doesn’t mean talks can’t be extended if both parties believe there is value in coming to an agreement.

Read more: https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2020-12-23/Brexit-deadline-is-artificial-says-Brussels-based-think-tank-WqZ...

Next year will be a busy one for sport, with many major events postponed because of the pandemic moving forward to 2021.

COVID-19 hit 2020’s sporting calendar hard and its impact was felt right across the board, from elite sport to amateur sporting events.

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It was back in 2015 that David Cameron announced a Brexit referendum and nearly five years on the UK’s divorce from the EU is almost complete.

Brexit led Cameron to resign when the UK voted in favour of leaving the bloc, while it also spelt the end of his successor Theresa May after she failed t...

🇬🇧 The UK will stay in the European Space Agency once the Brexit transition period ends, and it officially leaves the European Union. 🚀

🛰️ But it is also trying to invest in independent space projects with a budget that is one-twentieth the size of NASA's. 👩‍🚀

Will it succeed in exploring the ...

On Thursday morning, at the Torlak Institute for Virology in Belgrade, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić received a jab against the COVID-19 virus.

She was accompanied by her labor minister and the country's top epidemiologist. Brnabić was the first European PM to take a vaccination against CO...

English is the world's lingua franca, spoken by 1.5 billion people – but why? Will its pre-eminence be ended by the march of machine translation, the rise of rival languages and improvements in technology? And might we become a monolingual species? CGTN Europe reads the runes and asks the experts...

🐶 Dreaming about a long road trip 🚗 with a four-legged friend once the lockdown lifts? 🐕 Well, they could have a problem at the UK border, 🇬🇧 and it's not because of COVID-19. 😷

🇪🇺 EU pet passports issued in the UK are about to become invalid because of Brexit. 🛃

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Vaccinations against the COVID-19 virus, which has caused havoc around the world, will start being rolled out in all 27 European Union countries on Sunday (December 27).

Millions of doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are being prepared for patients across the bloc, even as some countries have ...