Angela Merkel has blamed German ‘perfectionism’ for the country’s current coronavirus chaos with vaccine doses going unused and patchy lockdown rules failing to rein in the third wave. The long-serving chancellor called for more ‘flexibility’ as she acknowledged flaws in a bureaucratic vaccine roll-out which has seen only 10 per cent of the population get … Read more
Boris Johnson tonight claimed the UK ‘wouldn’t dream’ of blocking exports of Covid jabs to the EU as he sought to defuse the vaccine trade war brewing on the continent. Officials in Europe are threatening to ban supplies of AstraZeneca’s jabs from coming into the UK amid a row over millions of unclaimed doses of … Read more
Germany and France waded into the EU Covid vaccine row today as Angela Merkel backed threats to block exports of the AstraZeneca jab and Paris directly targeted UK-bound supplies. The Chancellor came out in favour of an EU-first policy and the threat of a ban on exports to third countries like Britain that has been … Read more
Germany extended its lockdown measures by another month and imposed several new restrictions, including largely shutting down public life over Easter, in an effort to drive down the rate of coronavirus infections. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the measures early this morning after a lengthy video call with the country’s 16 state governors, nearly three weeks … Read more
Germany extended its lockdown measures by another month and imposed several new restrictions, including largely shutting down public life over Easter, in an effort to drive down the rate of coronavirus infections. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the measures early this morning after a lengthy video call with the country’s 16 state governors, nearly three weeks … Read more
Colleague of Angela Merkel, 53, collapses and dies next to her husband on a flight from Cuba to Germany Karin Strenz, 53, was pronounced dead at hospital after collapsing on a flight The plane made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, at 7:30am Strenz was under investigation over alleged money transfers from Azerbaijan By … Read more
Angela Merkel EXTENDS Germany’s Covid restrictions into next month despite mass anti-lockdown protests and her party’s election drubbing Thousands of lockdown protesters rallied in cities across Europe this weekend Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel is keen to go ahead with extension Internal memo said rising infection rates could be curbed with the extension By Isabella Nikolic … Read more
Angela Merkel EXTENDS Germany’s Covid restrictions into next month despite mass anti-lockdown protests and her party’s election drubbing Thousands of lockdown protesters rallied in cities across Europe this weekend Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel is keen to go ahead with extension Internal memo said rising infection rates could be curbed with the extension By Isabella Nikolic … Read more
Angela Merkel has said she will have the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after lifting her government’s ban in a stunning U-turn. The German Chancellor is among several European leaders to have resumed AstraZeneca inoculations after suspending them for fear they caused blood clots. European regulators have insisted the vaccine is safe and that the tiny handful of … Read more
Angela Merkel has said she will have the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after lifting her government’s ban in a stunning U-turn. The German Chancellor is among several European leaders to have resumed AstraZeneca inoculations after suspending them for fear they caused blood clots. European regulators have insisted the vaccine is safe and that the tiny handful of … Read more