Filipino bishop appointed by Pope Francis as Apostolic Nuncio to the EU

Futch Anthony Inso 03/24/2025

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Pope Francis announced the appointment of a Filipino bishop as the Holy See’s Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union. Archbishop Bernardito C. Auza, the titular Archbishop of Suacia, was currently the archbishop of Sweden and…

EU shifts on defense — and concedes maybe ‘Macron was right’

Agence France Presse 03/07/2025

BRUSSELS, Belgium — As EU capitals line up behind the message that Europe must guarantee its own security, French President Emmanuel Macron could be forgiven for thinking… “I told you so”. It is a message Macron has…

Trump: EU was born to ‘screw’ US

Agence France Presse 02/27/2025

WASHINGTON, United States — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the European Union was born to “screw” the United States, laying bare his hostility to the longtime US partner as he detailed new tariffs. Trump’s month back…

Russian assets to arm Ukraine? EU to move forward with this plan

Agence France Presse 03/22/2024

EU leaders on Thursday agreed to “take work forward” on a plan to use the profits from frozen Russian central bank assets to arm Ukraine, as Kyiv pleaded for more ammunition for its outgunned forces. More than…

Bongbong Marcos vows to provide more solutions to improve PH maritime industry

Zacarian Sarao 04/02/2023

MANILA, Philippines — After the European Commission extended its recognition of the Philippines seafarer’s certificate, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Sunday gave assurance that the national government would continue to provide solutions to improve the country’s maritime…

PH seafarers get to keep jobs; EU cites ‘progress’

Jacob Lazaro, Nestor Corrales - @inquirerdotnet 04/02/2023

MANILA, Philippines — “Crisis averted!” That was how Malacañang on Saturday described the European Union’s decision to extend its recognition of the Philippines seafarer’s certificate, saving the jobs of some 50,000 Filipinos working on EU-flagged ships. In…

US, EU mourn death of former president Fidel Ramos

Zacarian Sarao - @inquirerdotnet 07/31/2022

  MANILA, Philippines — The United States Embassy in Manila and the European Union (EU) delegation in the Philippines extended their condolences to the Philippines over the passing of former president Fidel Ramos. Ramos died on Sunday at…

EU virtual education fair slated on Oct. 1-2

PR 10/01/2021

Planning to take graduate or post-graduate studies in the EU? Let the European Higher Education Fair (EHEF) 2021 guide you to “Go Higher with the EU”. The biggest of its kind in the Philippines, EHEF will give…

The tragedy of vaccine apartheid

Richard Heydarian - @inquirerdotnet 02/16/2021

No one is safe unless everyone is safe.” This is the mantra we repeatedly hear, underlining the need for universal vaccinations to fight the pandemic. And yet, the world is facing a tragically bizarre situation where healthy…

EU could approve two coronavirus vaccines this year

11/20/2020

Brussels, Belgium—The European Union could approve two coronavirus vaccines being tested by Pfizer-BioNTech and by Moderna before the end of next month, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday, November 19, 2020. Von der Leyen…

EU top court rules in favor of Google on search engine issue

Associated Press 09/24/2019

BRUSSELS — Google won a major case in the European Union on Tuesday, when the bloc’s top court ruled that the U.S. internet giant doesn’t have to extend the EU’s “right to be forgotten” rules to its…

EU finance ministers reach eurozone reform deal

AFP 12/04/2018

EU finance ministers agreed reforms to better fight against a financial crisis on Tuesday that fell short of the original ambitions to relaunch Europe by French President Emmanuel Macron. The agreement between the EU’s 27 finance ministers,…

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