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Subject: Press Release: European Roundtable Highlights the Link Between Addictions and Cardiovascular Health Brussels, October 2, 2024 – The Institute for Rational Addiction Policies today organized a roundtable titled "Connecting Addictions and Cardiovascular Health in Europe." Leading experts on addictions and economics met with policymakers to discuss the relationship between the use of addi...
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The President of the European Commission and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom met today and agreed to strengthen the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union. They agreed on the shared challenges facing the European Union and the United Kingdom including the altered strategic context for the wider continent notably resulting from Russia's illegal invasion of Uk...
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Iliana Ivanova, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth met with Ministers from the Western Balkans in Skopje yesterday and today in a series of meetings that highlighted the joint efforts on implementing the Western Balkans Agenda on Innovation, Research, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport. The representatives reaffirmed their commitment to intensifying coopera...
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The press briefing ahead of the Eurogroup meeting will take place on Thursday, 3 October at 14.00. The briefing will be "off the record" and will be given by Tuomas Saarenheimo, President of the Eurogroup Working Group. The press briefing will take place in a hybrid format: EU accredited journalists will be able to participate and ask questions either remotely or in person at the Justus Lips...
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Good evening, good evening to Brussels from Mexico. This is a moment of truth with Lebanon. Certainly, it is a moment of truth where this country – caught in the middle of a war – and the European Union has to, collectively, commit to preserve its state’s institutions from the risk of collapsing. That is why I called for this extraordinary Informal Meeting of the European Union Foreign Minis...
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The European Union expresses its concern over the serious increase in executions in Saudi Arabia over the last four months this year, including executions for drug related offences. The European Union strongly opposes it at all times and in all circumstances. The death penalty is a cruel and inhumane punishment, which is incompatible with the inalienable right to life, fails to act as a det...
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The European Union welcomes the agreement addressing the dispute over the leadership of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), under which the Libyan House of Representatives and the High Council of State established the mechanism, criteria and timeline for the appointment of a CBL Governor, Deputy Governor and Board of Directors. We commend the facilitation efforts undertaken by the UN Support M...
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Thank you. Ms President, Everybody knows the figures. Since the start of the war, about [more than 41,000] Palestinians have been killed, maybe more below the rubble of Gaza. Most of them are innocent civilians, including over 11,000 children. And this after 1,200 Israelis were killed and hundreds taken hostages. Many of them still are being kept in captivity, while Gaza has been reduced ...
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The European Commission has released the anticipated Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) for the second auction of the European Hydrogen Bank, allocating an additional €1.2 billion to support the production of RFNBO hydrogen. Hydrogen Europe commends numerous aspects of the new auction structure, the Commission having set a €4 per kilogram price cap, five-year timeline for project commissioning, an...
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Check against delivery! Excellencies, we have been talking a lot about the horrors of today. Certainly, we have to address them. But we must also try to avoid the horrors of tomorrow, by working to put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Let nobody say: “This is not the right time for the Two-State Solution”. When was it “the right time”? How many people must die before it is ...
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