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BRUSSELS, 1 April 2026 — Handicap International – Humanity and Inclusion (HI) and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) today launch The Nobel Piece, a global campaign aimed at regaining political support for the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. In times of war and conflict, this Treaty is increasingly under pressure. The campaign launch coincides with International Mine Awareness Day on the 4th...
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The Committee of Permanent Representatives has agreed today the texts of the agreement and decisions of signature and provisional application of the Agreement between the EU and the UK in respect of Gibraltar. The texts will be formally adopted as soon as the checks of the Council lawyer-linguists are concluded. The Agreement is expected to enter into provisional application on 15 July 2026. Th...
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Good evening, everybody. Thank you, dear Andrii, for hosting us here in Kyiv today. This morning, we visited Bucha to mark four years since its liberation. In March 2022, the images of murdered civilians and mass graves sent shock waves around the world. Bucha exposed the systematic and calculated brutality of Russia's war. A year in peace talks has not delivered a breakthrough for the si...
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Dear President Zelenskyy, Dear Volodymyr, Dear Foreign Ministers, other ministers, Thank you for welcoming us here in Kyiv today. We meet at a dangerous moment. Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine shows no signs of abating, and the new war has captured the Middle East. Both wars are very much interlinked. Iran designed the drones that Russia is using against you and is mass prod...
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Dear Andrii, thank you for inviting us here. It is true that we are commemorating four years of liberation of Bucha that also showed the atrocities that were committed under occupation against civilians. All these war crimes that we have seen, these people that lost their lives, these are regular civilians. Some were just walking on the street. Some were killed in their own homes. Some were tortu...
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Joint statement by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine. We gathered today in Kyiv and in Buch...
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High Representative/Vice-President (HR/VP) Kallas will travel to Ukraine on 31 March alongside European Union Foreign Ministers. During the visit, the HR/VP and Ministers will travel to Bucha to mark four years since Russia’s mass killings. On the same day, the HRVP will host an informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers. The meeting will be followed by a press conference with Ukrainian Foreign M...
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Today, the Council formally authorised the Commission to open negotiations with the UK on two agreements regarding the latter’s participation in the EU’s internal electricity market and on an appropriate UK financial contribution to the EU’s cohesion policy. The Council also agreed to allow UK’s participation in the EU’s Erasmus+ programme for the year 2027. “Strengthening the Union’s relat...
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We should have been in Nicosia today, but developments in the Middle East led to this meeting being held via teleconference. We express our solidarity and support for the Cypriot people and the Cypriot government, and we look forward to being there very soon. The first issue discussed by the Eurogroup was the situation in the Middle East and its economic impact on Europe. This is a concerning c...
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The report of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry, documenting serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in Sweida in July 2025, is an important contribution to advance justice and the search for accountability in Syria. The EU calls on all parties, including the Syrian transitional authorities, to swiftly and transparently implement the recomm...
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