The new recommendations will take effect on May 16, but rules for masks may still vary by airline beyond that date if they fly to or from destinations where the rules are different.
Hungary and Slovakia, landlocked and dependent on crude from a Russian pipeline, are resisting the oil embargo and holding up the approval of the new package of sanctions.
Bloc members are preparing sanctions on oil sales from Russia over its assault on Ukraine that could deprive Moscow of a large revenue stream within days, but some members are jockeying to opt out of such an embargo.
A proposed ban on 12,000-odd hazardous chemicals could be expanded in the step towards a toxic-free environment.
A mysterious and severe form of hepatitis has been found in 200 children, predominantly on the European continent.
Cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin raise speculation that these could be triggered by a new strain of adenovirus or even Covid-19.
EU member states have finalised new legislation that will better combat abuses of the internet such as hate speech and disinformation campaigns.
The move came after French data watchdog CNIL slapped the tech giant with a $162 million fine in January for making it harder to reject cookies than to accept them.
The International Monetary Fund has cut the growth rate for eurozone for 2022 to 2.8 percent, from 3.9 percent in its January estimate.
Russian oligarchs are estimated to hold "at least $1 trillion in wealth abroad, often concealed in offshore companies whose true ownership is hard to determine," the economists said in a letter to the G20.
A large crowd of demonstrators calling themselves Extinction Rebellion demanded slashing of new infrastructure plans linked to fossil fuels and warned about climate change at protests in the capitals of the UK and France.
Public and political opinion in the EU is swinging towards a total energy ban as Moscow's assault in Ukraine grinds on and yields discoveries of atrocities.
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