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On 9 January, High Representative Kaja Kallas will travel to Ramstein (Germany) where she will participate in the ministerial-level meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (UDCG). The meeting will be an opportunity to discuss and coordinate further military support to Ukraine. Continued coordination with partners, including NATO, is crucial. The EU and Member States have provided €48 bill...
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The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission (HR/VP), Kaja Kallas, will travel to Rome, Italy, on 9-10 January, to participate in the Quint meeting on Syria. The meeting, hosted by the Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, will take place in the evening, at Villa Madama, where the HR/VP will join her counterparts from Franc...
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The 2025 visit.brussels Awards: public vote From today until 6 February 2025, the public is invited to vote for some 50 creative Brussels initiatives that have helped the capital to stand out nationally and internationally. Voting is now open at www.awards.brussels. Read the press release 
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The EU condemns the Democratic People's Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile, which Pyongyang claims was equipped with a hypersonic warhead. This violates multiple UN Security Council resolutions and further raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The EU expresses its full solidarity with its partners in the region, in particular the Republic of K...
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The European Union deeply regrets the decision to uphold the conviction of human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng announced today (6 January 2025) by the Suzhou Intermediate People’s Court. Yu Wensheng was sentenced to three years imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power” in October 2024. The EU has consistently expressed its concern about the case of Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan, w...
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The text of the following joint statement was released by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union and the Governments of the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Timor-Leste, and the United Kingdom to address the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. We are deeply concerned by the worsening human rights...
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The European Union welcomes the abolition of the death penalty in Zimbabwe. With this historic step, Zimbabwe joins the majority of countries in the world having eliminated the capital punishment. Zimbabwe had maintained a moratorium on the death penalty since the last execution in 2005. The European Union calls on Zimbabwe to take a further step by removing the provision allowing for the t...
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On 20 December, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the President of the Swiss Confederation Viola Amherd confirmed the completion of negotiations on a broad package of agreements that aim to deepen and expand the EU-Switzerland relationship. The broad package includes a wide range of elements: The update of five agreements which already give Switzerland a...
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In response to an invitation by the President of Kosovo, the High Representative / Vice President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas has decided to deploy an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) to observe the parliamentary elections scheduled for 9 February 2025. The High Representative has appointed Nathalie Loiseau, Member of the European Parliament, as Chief Observer. The election obs...
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