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The European Union welcomes the decision of the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 206 in the Philippines on Monday granting bail to former Senator Leila de Lima in the last criminal case against her. This decision is an important step for the rule of law in the Philippines and for addressing the conclusions of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. We call for a speedy resolution of ...
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Following today’s Foreign Affairs Council, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell chaired an EU-Western Balkans ministerial meeting gathering the EU’s Foreign Ministers and their counterparts from the Western Balkans. The High Representative launched in May 2021 the initiative of enhanced engagement with the Western Ba...
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I prefer to speak Spanish. It will be more accurate on what I have to say. As I said this morning, we had three main items on the agenda. The first one was the situation in Gaza. The second one Ukraine and the third one Armenia and Azerbaijan. We started our discussions with the situation and the conflict between Palestine and Israel, and the fight in Gaza. We had a look at that from all dim...
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The following is the text of joint press release by the press office of EU High Representative Josep Borrell and COP28 President Designate Sultan Al Jaber: Today in Brussels, High Representative Josep Borrell hosted COP28 President Designate Sultan Al Jaber for an informal discussion with Ministers of Foreign Affairs of EU Member States in the margins of the Foreign Affairs Council. They di...
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Good morning, Today, we are going to have a meeting concentrated on three issues: the situation in Gaza, Ukraine and Armenia/Azerbaijan. But after, we will have a specific meeting together with the Western Balkans [Foreign Affairs] Ministers. And, at the end of the [Foreign Affairs] Council, we will have a short meeting with Sultan [Ahmed] Al-Jaber, the President [designate] of COP28, in ord...
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The European Union is appalled by and condemns the recent dramatic escalation of violence in Darfur. According to credible eyewitness reports more than a thousand members of the Masalit community were killed in Ardamta, West Darfur, in just over two days, during major attacks carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its affiliated militias. These latest atrocities are seemingly par...
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Today, we mark the International Day of Solidarity with Belarus, in memory of 31-year-old Raman Bandarenka, who was brutally beaten by the regime’s security forces, leading to his tragic death on November 12, 2020. His death was never investigated and no charges were brought against those responsible for it. Since the 2020 falsified presidential elections, the human rights situation in Bela...
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Près d’une centaine de civils, dont des femmes et des enfants, auraient été tuées lors d’un nouveau massacre dans le village de Zaongo, dans la région du Centre-Nord du Burkina Faso. L’Union européenne  appelle les autorités de transition à faire toute la lumière sur les circonstances de cette tuerie afin d’en déterminer les responsabilités. L’UE réaffirme sa pleine solidarité avec le pe...
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L’Union européenne exprime ses fortes inquiétudes face au climat politique qui prévaut depuis plusieurs semaines, marqué par de vives tensions et de nombreuses violences survenues lors de manifestations. L’UE appelle toutes les forces politiques et sociales à agir de manière pacifique, dans un esprit de dialogue inclusif et constructif afin de renforcer la confiance dans le cycle électoral....
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Swift agreement on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) revision, as proposed by the Commission in June 2023, is urgently needed in order to provide the necessary resources for crucial new needs, which cannot be financed under the MFF ceilings as they currently stand. This is particularly necessary to enable the EU to respond to the consequences of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine ...
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