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PRESS INVITATION – CLIMATE MARCH 2025 On Sunday, October 5, the Climate Coalition – bringing together over 100 organisations including trade unions, health insurance funds, environmental associations, North-South NGOs, youth groups and citizen collectives – will once again take to the streets of Brussels for the CLIMATE MARCH. The call is clear: public money must fund a fair and ambitious climate...
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last week, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has again lost connection to its last external power supply. It is the 10th time since Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine began. This is the longest and most severe outage, in particular as military activity continues to prevent the repair and reconnection of power lines. We call on Russia to immediately cease...
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It was a great pleasure to welcome today the coalition of Mayors for Housing. And it is very clear that from Dublin to Athens, we are facing a multi-layer crisis — a housing crisis. A layer with homeless, a crisis for householders with lower incomes, but also a crisis impacting the middle class and very especially, the young generation. And if you want to strengthen our social cohesion, to stre...
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The press briefing ahead of the Informal meeting of heads of state or government in Copenhagen of 1 October 2025 will take place on Monday 29 September 2025 at 15.30. This briefing will be "off the record". The press briefing will take place in a hybrid format: EU accredited journalists will be able to participate and ask questions either in person at the Justus Lipsius press room or remotel...
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The world faces a crucial choice. Do we want a rules-based international order, that upholds multilateralism and the United Nations Charter? Or a chaotic world based on unilateralism, violence, and disruption? The European Union knows where it stands. We are a project of peace, of reconciliation, of social justice. We are — and will remain — a steadfast defender of multilateralism, of the rules...
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Strengthened partnership to deliver on global challenges The meeting of Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) took place in New York on 24 September 2025. The meeting provided a timely platform to advance the constructive bi-regional dialogue, paving the way for the upcoming IV CELAC-EU Summit set to take place on 9-10 ...
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Two out of five families live in countries where more money is spent on debt service than on national health and education services combined. We do not have a finance problem, but an allocation problem. Year on year, $4 trillion are missing in our efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. To overcome this financing gap, we need to reform the international financial institutions. M...
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Today, the European jury has announced its decision for the European Capital of Culture 2030, and Molenbeek for Brussels 2030 (MB2030) was not selected. While this moment may feel like a pause in our adventure, it is not an ending. What we have built together over these years is too strong, too alive, and too necessary to stop here. We applaud the titleholder, and we will contribute with all our g...
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As of today, candidates can submit their applications for the visit.brussels Awards. Anyone who has made the capital shine at home or abroad this year with a creative Brussels-based initiative, is invited to submit an entry.   Read the press release
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First of all, I would like to thank the South Korean Presidency for convening this meeting. Ukraine is fighting for the very principles of the United Nations Charter. Sovereignty. Territorial integrity, the respect for internationally recognized borders. The right to choose its own destiny. We cannot rewrite history. This war started with an unjustified and illegal attack by Russia. There is...
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