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...Austria is in late-stage negotiations with Russia to acquire 1m doses of the Sputnik V vaccine by mid-June, even though the jab has not yet been approved for use by the EU's medical regulator....
...On Sunday, the Czech Republic meanwhile, said it intended to approve use of Sputnik V. And Hungary has begun rolling out both Russian and Chinese jabs....
...(Guardian) Slovakia’s prime minister Igor Matovic is facing mounting pressure to resign after striking a deal with Russia for its Sputnik V vaccine....
...Slovakia’s ruling coalition could be in danger of breaking up over potential purchases of doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...Orban’s Hungary has broken ranks and embraced Russian and Chinese vaccines not approved by the European Medicines Agency, while the Czech Republic has said it intends to approve use of the Russian Sputnik V...
...Peak populism v the Green wave The far-right earthquake didn't quite shake the parliament's foundations....
...Mr Kurz is still favourite to win back the chancellery....
...EU v Poland latest Brussels has opened a new front in its battle with Warsaw, launching infringement proceedings related to the country's contested supreme court overhaul (FT)....
...Google v EU The US search engine giant has come under fire for urging publishers that use its services to oppose Brussels’ planned copyright reforms (FT)....
...Kurz v Kneissl Austria’s new foreign minister Karin Kneissl speaks a good handful of languages, is a fan of UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson and has worked as an academic, a diplomat and journalist....
...“I see a V-shaped trajectory for the pound in the coming quarters.” Reverberations are also being felt across equity and bond markets as investors reconsider ownership of British assets....
...Flexibility measures such as Kurzarbeit helped deal with most of the supply problems that had been dreaded at the initial stages of this apparently V-shaped recovery....
...Funding Kurzarbeit is one way the government can help....
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