Bloomberg AstraZeneca Plc and four European Union countries said they reached an agreement to distribute a coronavirus vaccine. The Netherlands, Germany, France and Italy concluded a contract with the UK drugmaker to provide 300 million to 400 million doses of a possible vaccine in stages starting from the end of 2020, the Dutch government said in a statement on Saturday. ...

Bloomberg Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak backed calls to ease the UK’s 2-meter social distancing rule to help the stalled economy get back to work, as he urged Britons to go shopping again. The government is conducting a “comprehensive review” of the regulation that requires people to remain 2 meters (6 feet 7 inches) apart in public to reduce ...

Bloomberg Germany’s construction minister, Horst Seehofer, wants to help protect tenants by making it more difficult to convert rental apartments into condominiums, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported. Seehofer is proposing to introduce a threshold of at least two-thirds of the flats in an apartment building having to be sold to tenants or their family members for any conversion plan to gain ...