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Fizzy drinks giant Coca-Cola is testing paper bottles in Europe as part of its mission to eliminate plastic waste by the year 2030. The US company’s first-ever paper bottle prototype will be available this summer through a limited online trial in Hungary. A run of 2,000 bottles of the company’s ‘plant-based snacking drink’ AdeZ will … Read more
Canada has been dragged into the EU’s vaccine chaos with Pfizer and Moderna both cutting back deliveries from Europe while Brussels goes to war on jab exports to rescue its own stumbling vaccine roll-out. With no home-grown vaccines in Canada and no jabs being shipped from the United States, the country is reliant on factories … Read more
British shoppers in Europe are struggling to get their hands on everything from custard creams and M&S food products to Fortnum & Mason hampers as post-Brexit export rules continue to cause chaos. Stonemanor, a small chain of British food stores in Belgium, is unable to source classic items including digestive biscuits, Walker’s shortbread, oatcakes and … Read more
The SWAMPS-Élysées! Paris is flooded by the Seine and German shipping is stalled by high water levels under bridges as rivers across Europe burst their banks after torrential downpours The famous embankments and avenues of the capital were submerged under the river for the fifth day in a row on Saturday as the weather service … Read more
A damning timeline of the EU’s vaccine shambles has revealed how smug satisfaction in Brussels turned to panic, a witch-hunt and ultimately two humiliating climbdowns within only a matter of days. Diplomatic notes and briefings by those in the room as the bloc’s vaccine roll-out fell apart show how officials were warned as far back … Read more
The CEO of controversial conservative app Parler wanted to be the next Bill Gates but became the ‘Darth Vader of social media’ said the man who gave John Matze one of his first positions in tech. George Tu, 52, described the Parler founder, 27, as a fiercely ambitious young programmer who was largely non-political before … Read more
ANDREW PIERCE: What about Europe values now, Hezza? By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 01:53 GMT, 1 February 2021 | Updated: 02:06 GMT, 1 February 2021 As President of the European Movement UK, the former Tory Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine already seems to be campaigning for Britain to re-enter the EU. In … Read more
The EU’s vaccine shambles descended further into chaos today as it emerged the bloc has not yet signed a deal to buy British-made Novavax jabs which passed phase III trials yesterday with a 90% success rate. Ministers from the EU commission only completed ‘exploratory’ talks to buy Novavax, which is being made in a Tesside … Read more
Europe’s borders are closing once more with Belgium banning non-essential travel from today, France demanding negative tests from all EU visitors and Germany looking at ways to cut air traffic to ‘almost zero’. With virus deaths still piling up across Europe and governments alarmed by new strains of Covid-19, EU travel restrictions have gone beyond … Read more
EU officials have brazenly demanded that UK-made Covid vaccines be exported to Europe to make up for shortfalls in their roll-out – just a day after Ursula Von Der Leyen threatened to stop doses made on the continent from coming the other way. In a stunning piece of hypocrisy, an anonymous official on Wednesday said … Read more