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From 8 to 9 April, High Representative/Vice-President (HR/VP), Kaja Kallas will travel to Saudi Arabia. In Riyadh, HRVP Kallas will meet with the Saudi minister for Foreign Affairs, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud. She will meet the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jasem Al Budaiwi, among others.
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) will bring together more than 300 representatives of journalists’ organisations in Paris from 4 to 7 May 2026 for its Centenary World Congress, with the support of its French affiliates SNJ, SNJ-CGT, CFDT and Force Ouvrière. The IFJ represents 188 journalists’ unions and associations worldwide, and speaks on behalf of more than 600,000 journalists...
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On Saturday 9 May, the Iris Festival will celebrate the 37th anniversary of the Brussels-Capital Region. Once again, this year, the event will be marked by an evening of music featuring an exceptional line-up. Read the press release
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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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