On 4 March 2021, the first 487,200 vaccines provided to the Philippines under the COVAX facility have arrived in Manila. These vaccines as well as 40 more million doses which are yet to come are part of the COVAX facility to which Team Europe is the biggest contributor.
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte thanked the international community for donating 487,200 doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines to the Philippines, saying the assistance to poor nations is a “plus for humanity.”
Firebrand President Rodrigo Duterte has cooled off his rhetoric targeting the European Union and a new cooperation agreement is on the table. However, Duterte’s authoritarian tendencies loom in the background.
Philippines has asked the European Union (EU) to let it discharge its obligation to investigate and prosecute individuals involved in killings.
Secretary of Health Dr Francisco Duque III today joined with the European Union’s (EU) Ambassador to the Philippines, H.E. Luc Véron, and WHO Representative Dr Rabindra Abeyasinghe in launching an EU-funded project to control and supress COVID-19 in the Philippines.
The Delegation of the European Union (EU) to the Philippines and the Foreign Service Institute will jointly conduct a “Women in Diplomacy” webinar on 22 March 2021 to discuss the state of play in gender equity and gender equality in diplomacy.
Colleges and universities across the Philippines are set to gear up for the much-anticipated EU Whiz: Filipino Youth of the FEUture—an annual inter-collegiate competition spearheaded by the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to the Philippines
North Korea slammed European Union human rights sanctions imposed against its senior officials this week as a “despicable political provocation” and the result of “a psychotic way of thinking.”
The European Union moved Wednesday toward stricter export controls for coronavirus vaccines, seeking to make sure its 27 nations have more Covid-19 shots to boost the bloc’s flagging vaccine campaign amid a surge in new infections.