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The EIB Group will hold a press conference on its annual results on Thursday, 2 February 2023, at 10h30 (CET), in the Justus Lipsius press room of the Council (175 rue de la Loi). EIB President Werner Hoyer will give an overview of the results of the EIB Group’s activities in 2022, and plans for 2023 and beyond. The event will also be streamed on Council Live. More information can be foun...
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Dear Minister, Dear guests, It is a great pleasure for me to be in Tallinn today. The eyes of the world are looking towards the East again.  I remember in 1968, when I was growing up in the communist Czech Republic, I saw the Soviet tanks coming from the East. Today, Ukraine sees tanks, bombs, rockets and soldiers coming from the same place. Russia is challenging not only the indep...
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S&D MEPs Andreas Schieder, Chair of the Delegation of North Macedonia, Tonino Picula, the Group’s foreign affairs coordinator, and Matjaž Nemec, the Group’s shadow rapporteur on North Macedonia, issued a joint statement condemning the inflammatory political campaigning and hate speech by ECR MEP Angel Dzhambazki against North Macedonia: “We condemn the recent statements by ECR MEP Angel Dzh...
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In view of Data Protection Day on 28 January, Věra Jourová, Vice-President for Values and Transparency, and Didier Reynders, Commissioner for Justice, issued the following statement: “European data protection laws have become a global benchmark for the protection of personal data and continuing to ensure their full implementation and robust enforcement remains our top priority. Last year ...
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Minister [of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor], ministers, Commissioners, Excellencies, It is a great pleasure and an honour for me to be here and co-chair this 15th Political Dialogue, which is taking place in the context of our strategic partnership. I am glad to be accompanied by my fellow Commissioners for Health and Food Security [Stella Kyriakides], for Interna...
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The Multi-agency Donor Coordination Platform to support Ukraine's repair, recovery and reconstruction process has been launched today. It will allow for close coordination among international donors and international financial organisations and will ensure that support is provided in a coherent, transparent, and accountable manner. The first meeting of the Donor Coordination Platform, hel...
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With EU migration ministers meeting today, the S&D Group in the European Parliament is concerned about the influence of the extreme right on the Swedish Presidency and the negative consequences for the respect of international and EU laws and the fundamental rights in the area of migration and asylum. S&D MEPs are urging the Council to focus on making progress on finding agreement on the m...
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Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen launched today a Regional Teachers' Initiative in Africa and for Africa, a €100 million investment from the EU budget in empowering the world's fastest growing youth population through quality education. This flagship initiative under the EU–Africa Global Gateway Investment Package aims to accelerate the training of teachers for Su...
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27 January marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ahead of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, President von der Leyen said: “We must never forget the six millions of Jewish women, men and children, and all other victims, among them hundreds of thousands of Roma, murdered duri...
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Any counter-measures targeting us or the EU taken by the brutal regime of Iran will not stop us from denouncing the lack of democracy, freedom and respect of human rights in the country. We, Socialists and Democrats, strongly condemn the Iranian authorities’ decision to impose sanctions against EU and United Kingdom individuals and entities; among others our S&D MEPs Thijs Reuten and Dietmar K...
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