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Good morning, Today we have a full day ahead, a lot of topics on the agenda. First, we are going to discuss Ukraine. I am really looking forward to listening from President Zelenskyy, also getting the news and his feeling of the call with President Trump yesterday. I very much welcome the announcement by President Trump that the United States is trying to find additional air defences for Ukr...
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Today’s detention of Istanbul mayor İmamoğlu and the arrests and charges brought against elected officials, political activists, civil society and businesses representatives, journalists, and others since the beginning of the year, give rise to questions regarding Türkiye’s adherence to its long-established democratic tradition. The EU urges the Turkish authorities to provide full transparency ...
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EU leaders and social partners met in Brussels for the Tripartite Social Summit. The main theme of the summit was ‘Bringing Europe back on track in a challenging geopolitical environment as an attractive, competitive and investment friendly location that protects and creates quality jobs’ VIEW MEETING PAGE
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is my pleasure to do this College readout for the first time. This morning, we adopted several files related to the White Paper on the future of European Defence and Rearm Europe Plan ‘Readiness 2030’, including two pieces of legislation to strengthen the European defence industry while proposing the necessary flexibilities in expenditures. We will de...
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Indicative programme All times are approximate and subject to change +/- 13.30 Arrivals and doorsteps (live streaming) +/- 14.00 Beginning of the Tripartite Social Summit (roundtable) +/- 16.10 Family photo At the end of the meeting (+/- 16.15) - Press conference in live streaming. Arrangements for the press conference The press conference will be in physical format only: EU accr...
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The Council today gave its final green light to setting up the Reform and Growth Facility for the Republic of Moldova, a new instrument to support EU-related reforms and economic growth in the country. The envelope of €1.9 billion provided by the Facility is the largest EU financial support package since Moldova’s independence and comes on top of the EU’s other substantial support to the countr...
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We had a very intensive Foreign Affairs Council - a lot of talks, very important topics. That is why we are also running over time, so sorry for that. Then, we have the Syria conference coming, so unfortunately, I cannot take a lot of questions. I will try to be brief so there is more room for questions. First on Ukraine: there is broad political support for [the] defence initiative of [€]40 bi...
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Ukraine will soon receive approximately €3.5 billion after the Council approved a third payment of non-repayable grants and loans to Ukraine under the Ukraine Facility. The main objective of the Facility is to support Ukraine's macro-financial stability and recovery, reconstruction and modernisation. With this third disbursement, Ukraine will have received close to €20 billion under the Ukraine Fa...
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We have the Foreign Affairs Council today. I have different topics. So first, of course, we are going to discuss Ukraine, and we really welcome the Jeddah talks and then the results of it. Now we need to really see that the ball is in Russia's court and what kind of conditions they are presenting, which is [a] big question whether they want peace. Then of course, we are going to discuss Middle ...
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Les dirigeants de l'UE et les partenaires sociaux se réuniront à Bruxelles pour débattre du thème "Remettre l'Europe sur la bonne voie dans un contexte géopolitique difficile en tant qu'espace attrayant, compétitif et propice aux investissements qui protège et crée des emplois de qualité". VOIR LA PAGE
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