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The Special European Council on 9 and 10 February 2023 will take place in the Europa building in Brussels. Address: Rue de la Loi 155/Wetstraat 155, 1040-Brussels. Registration Media representatives wishing to cover the meeting in person are required to register in advance, following this link: • The deadline to register is Friday 20 January 2023 at 14:00 CET Under certain conditions, there wi...
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Dear Jens, I am very happy to have you here with us today for our College seminar at the beginning of the year. Your first visit at our College was in December 2020, in a completely different world. At that time, it was the very first time that a NATO Secretary-General ever came to the College. And it was already a sign of our excellent cooperation. Since then, our cooperation has only...
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The Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament condemn the latest crackdown on the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), reacting to yesterday’s news that Turkey’s chief prosecutor submitted his final case to the Constitutional Court to shut down this opposition party. Already last week the court froze the HDP’s access to a bank account through which it received state funding. HDP, one of t...
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The press briefing ahead of Eurogroup meeting will take place on Friday, 13 December 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 Justus Lipsius ...
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Strong allies make strong alliances. The European Union and NATO have evolved and grown in parallel over the years. Our organisations are close, our histories are intertwined. 21 of the 27 EU member states are members of NATO, and 23 if we count Sweden and Finland. EU member states represent the majority of NATO countries. The EU and NATO share the same common values of freedom and democracy, and ...
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On Monday, the United Nations Security Council extended for six months, until 10 July 2023, the authorisation for the UN to use the crossing point of Bab al-Hawa from Turkey to Syria for humanitarian deliveries. Uninterrupted delivery of UN cross-border humanitarian assistance remains vital for 4.1 million Syrians living in north-west Syria, including 2.8 million internally displaced. Their...
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The European Commission today launched a public consultation inviting all interested parties to comment on its draft proposal for Guidelines on how to design sustainability agreements in the field of agriculture (‘Guidelines') using the novel exclusion from EU competition rules introduced during the recent reform of the common agricultural policy (‘CAP'). Article 101 of the Treaty on the ...
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Vice President Šefčovič met Foreign Secretary Cleverly and the Northern Ireland Secretary Heaton-Harris in London on 9 January. They took stock of work to find joint solutions to the concerns raised by businesses and communities in Northern Ireland. The meeting was cordial and constructive. They underlined the EU and UK's shared commitment to protect the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement  i...
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Fellow leaders, Dear Prime Minister Sharif, Dear Secretary General Guterres, Ladies and Gentlemen. I would like to thank Prime Minister Sharif and Secretary General Antonio Guterres for this timely conference. 2022 was a difficult year for the world. We just overcame the pandemic. And Russia started it brutal invasion against Ukraine. But on top of this, Pakistan was hit by one of ...
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The Digital Decade policy programme 2030, a monitoring and cooperation mechanism to achieve common targets for Europe's digital transformation by 2030, has entered into force. For the first time, the European Parliament, Member States and the Commission have jointly set concrete objectives and targets in the four key areas of digital skills, infrastructure including connectivity, the digi...
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