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Kosovo takes over CEFTA chairmanship with eye on EU membership

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Discussion of the priorities and goals of the CEFTA organisation under Kosovo’s 2018 chairmanship took place in Brussels Press Club on Wednesday. Speaking at the meeting, Kosovo’s ambassador to the EU Bernard Nikaj said improving regional cooperation and increasing trade will be CEFTA’s priorities under Kosovo’s leadership, all of which will be done with an eye on bringing Pristina closer to the E...
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Launch event AMIF research: Tuesday 23 January from 14.30 to 16.30

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  In 2017, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) have commissioned a joint report on the use of Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) funding at national level. This report presents a critical analysis of the implementation of the AMIF via the EU Member States’ National AMIF Programmes. The report’s spec...
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Les élus belges de la diaspora dénoncent les traitements inhumains infligés aux migrants en Lybie

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Le mardi 28 novembre, les élus belges de la diaspora, Bertin Mampaka (Sénateur), Pierre Kompany (Député Bruxellois), Isabelle Kibassa-Maliba (Députée provinciale du Brabant Wallon) et Fatoumata Sidibé (Député Bruxelloise) ont organisé un point presse pour dénoncer les traitements inhumains et dégradants infligés aux migrants en Libye. Pour eux, aujourd’hui, il est inacceptable que des hommes, des ...
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EU-Asia Centre panel discussion on ASEM, EAS and EU-ASEAN relations

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On 23 November the EU-Asia Centre organised a panel discussion on ASEM, EAS and EU-ASEAN relations. In his introductory remarks, Fraser Cameron, Director of EU-Asia Centre, underscored the timely opportunity it provided to discuss the outcomes of the 12th East Asia Summit (EAS), the EU-ASEAN 40th commemorative summit in Manila, as well as the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) ministerial meeting in Myanm...
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Club de Madrid & Breathrough Media partners with the EU to improve counter-narrative responses

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Former Prime Minister of Tunisia and World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid Member, Hamadi Jebali, and Joëlle Milquet, Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission on victims of Terrorism and former Belgian Deputy Prime Minister meet  in the Press Club Brussels Europe on Wednesday, 15th of November
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Brexit, No Exit. Why (in the End) Britain Will Not Leave Europe

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On the 11th of October, the Press Club Brussels Europe organized a book launch by the author Denis MacShane ‘Brexit, No Exit. Why (in the End) Britain Will Not Leave Europe’ published by IB Tauris Denis MacShane is a former UK Europe Minister under Tony Blair, who wrote an earlier book in January 2015 ‘Brexit: How Britain will leave Europe’. That book controversially predicted the outcome...
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Presentation of the campaign for the European Union’s Outermost Regions label

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On 21st of September, 2017, Europe’s Outermost Regions (OMR) organised the an event to present the promotion campaign for the European Union’s Outermost Regions label  Did you know that we produce bananas in Europe? It might seem more obvious that we grow melons, tomatoes and avocados. But like bananas, these products, as well as pineapples, sugar and lychees, sometimes come from the Outermos...
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