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The press briefing ahead of Eurogroup meeting will take place on Wednesday, 8 February at 10.30. 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 Europa buildi...
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Ahead of the high-profile conference on foreign information manipulation and interference on Tuesday in Brussels, media are invited for a background briefing on foreign interference and disinformation, that will take place on Monday 6 February at 09:30 in the EEAS. Those interested can still register with Margot.RASKINE@ec.europa.eu until Monday 8:30.
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Good afternoon everyone. Dear President (Zelenskyy), first of all let me thank you for hosting today’s Summit. This Summit has made two things absolutely clear. The first is a message for you and for the people of Ukraine. The European Union will support you in every way we can, for as long as it takes. We are not intimidated and will not be intimated by the Kremlin. Because Ukraine and the EU we...
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Charles Michel, President of the European Council, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, met in Kyiv today for the 24th EU-Ukraine Summit and issued the following statement. We gathered today in the context of Russia’s ongoing unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine. We condemned it in the strongest poss...
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Indicative programme All times are approximate and subject to change Chair: Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy 11.45 Beginning of the EU-Republic of Moldova Association Council At the end of the meeting (+/- 14.30) press conference in live streaming. Arrangements for the press conference The press conference will take place in a hybrid forma...
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Ahead of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), on 6 February 2023, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the Commission, Josep Borrell, Vice-President for Values and Transparency, Věra Jourová, Vice-President for Demography and Democracy, Dubravka Šuica, Commissioner for Equality, Helena Dalli, and Co...
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In the margins of the EU-Ukraine Summit taking place in Kyiv on Friday, High Representative/Vice-President (HR/VP) Josep Borrell announced an additional €25 million support to Ukraine’s de-mining of the liberated territories temporarily occupied by Russian armed forces. “A large spread of mines and other explosive ordnances is being found in territories liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces. We w...
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The European External Action Service (EEAS) under the patronage of High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell is bringing together top political representatives and experts from around the globe to discuss the threats of foreign information manipulation and interference and ways how to tackle them. The high-profile conference on Tuesday 7 February in Brussels will be opened by a keyno...
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Today marks two years since the politically motivated sentencing of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny by a domestic court in Russia. The sentencing follows his arbitrary arrest and imprisonment upon returning to Russia from life-saving medical treatment in Berlin after an assassination attempt in August 2020 in Russia with a military chemical nerve agent banned under the Chemical...
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