Mark Francois: Tempting though it may be to stage one, Johnson should avoid a Love Actually moment with Biden

European defence budgets only go so far, and ultimately we need the Anglo-American link.

Early vaccination was expected to lead to earlier re-opening than our European neighbours. By and large, that didn’t happen.

The UK had one of the best vaccine programmes, but it kept its nightclubs closed for longer than France and Germany.

Starmer had a point on the Government’s amber travel list

It’s given a series of mixed messages over what this means for people who want to go abroad – with troublesome results.

Vaccine passports for travel get the go ahead. But there will be concerns about where else they could be applied.

The Government’s messaging around this idea has been confusing to say the least.

Instead of EU vaccine nationalism, let’s have UK vaccine internationalism

As Johnson put it yesterday: “we can’t think of this just as a project for us and us alone”.

Johnson’s Brexit journalism and Brexit politics are of a piece: in both he thrives by infuriating the Establishment

Whether writing, speaking or negotiating, he puts on a performance which the spectators enjoy all the more because it horrifies the guardians of convention.

Ed McGuinness: A lesson for democracy in Europe from an abandoned airport in Cyprus

The EU is caught between making more effective decisions and compromising its smaller members’ interests.

What is the current status of Europe’s situation with Covid-19?

The latest data on cases and death rates across the continent.

The latest developments in contact tracing – and why the Government is not alone in having problems with its system

Singapore, Australia and other countries experienced difficulties; the important thing is learning from these and improving matters.

Emily Barley: The Government’s Brexit plan puts us at risk of substandard and corrupt justice systems in EU member states

Britons were told the country would be leaving the dangerous European Arrest Warrant system, but its replacement looks suspiciously similar.

David Burrowes: Our new relationship with Europe is an opportunity to show more compassion to refugees

I am troubled by signs coming from the UK-EU negotiations. We must not water down rights for those fleeing war, persecution and violence.

Alec Shelbrooke: Next year’s exam season should be postponed – to allow more catch-up time in schools

It would require the willingness of exam boards to adjust their timetables. But with the will to achieve this, it could be done.

“Una faccia, una razza”. Greece – a success story in managing Covid-19?

By all indications, the country’s citizens have been some of Europe’s most compliant in observing lockdown.

The UK quarantine for international arrivals: what the rules are – and the reasons for their imposition now

Whereas other countries, such as Israel and Australia, implemented travel bans mid-March, the country is only following now.

Interview: Lamont describes how the belief that Britain should leave the EU entered the Tory mainstream

Her told a meeting in 1994 that “it has recently been said that the option of leaving the Community [is] ‘unthinkable’. I believe this attitude is rather simplistic.”