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Today, the Commission proposes a comprehensive set of actions to ensure the EU's access to a secure, diversified, affordable and sustainable supply of critical raw materials. Critical raw materials are indispensable for a wide set of strategic sectors including the net zero industry, the digital industry, aerospace, and defence sectors. While demand for critical raw materials is projected...
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Thank you, President, Honourable Members [of the European Parliament], Thank you for giving me the opportunity to join this timely debate on Tunisia. The different interventions today have shown that we broadly share the analysis and the concern over the latest developments in Tunisia, an important partner and a close neighbour for the European Union. The arrests of prominent polit...
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Today, the Commission is launching the New European Bauhaus capacity-building programme for the reconstruction of Ukraine in partnership with Ukrainian organisations. This follows the meeting between the College and the Ukrainian Government held in Kyiv on 2 February, the EU–Ukraine Summit of 3 February, as well as Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius' visit to Kyiv on 16-17 February on coope...
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Our last European Council was marked by the participation of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He took part in a brief plenary session, where we took the opportunity to reaffirm our full support for Ukraine for as long as it takes, because defeat for Ukraine is not an option. President Zelenskyy then met in small formats with leaders about intensifying the direct operational assistance, especially fo...
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The EU is organising the first edition of Schuman Security and Defence Forum (Schuman Forum) on 20-21 March, under the authority of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell. In line with the political priorities established in the Strategic Compass adopted in March 2022, the Schuman Forum will bring together t...
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In order to acknowledge the Lukashenka regime's complicity in Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU must impose comparable sanctions on Belarus as it has done on Russia. Such measures would also act as a deterrent against any attempts to bypass the sanctions. This S&D call is included in the resolution that the European Parliament will adopt later today. Parliament will also st...
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On the 6th of February, two devastating earthquakes hit the Türkiye-Syrian border. The first one, with a magnitude of 7.7, had its centre about 34 kilometres west of the city of Gaziantep. Nine hours later, a second, 7.6 magnitude earthquake, occurred 95 kilometres north-northwest from the first, in the Kahramanmaraş Province. Followed by over 15,000 aftershocks, the earthquakes were catastroph...
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President, Honourable Members of the European Parliament, Thank you for this opportunity to address you today on these increasingly important issues. Everybody has been following closely the developments in the Middle East in the past weeks, both in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. First, I would like to start by underlining both, the European Union’s and my own personal engage...
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