Brussels 20.02.2023 Today the Foreign Affairs Council, chaired by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, takes place in Brussels. Today’s #FAC is starting in few minutes ⌛️.On ministers agenda:🌍Russian aggression against #Ukraine 🇺🇦🌏Afghanistan 🇦🇫🌎climate & energy diplomacy ➕an informal lunch with @nicupopescu on #Moldova 🇲🇩More info https://t.co/zxPNTUj45wBackground note https://t.co/MrOHDrgJlh…
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Borrell: Ukraine war security challenge
Brussels 19.02.2023 “Our security is being challenged by the war in Ukraine. This is what I told yesterday the Chinese [State Councillor Wang Yi]. We are arming Ukraine because this war is a challenge for our security. It is an existential challenge for Europe. But I’m not going to be rhetoric and will go to…
EU-China: 38th Human Rights Dialogue
Brussels 18.02.2023 The 38th session of the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue was held in Brussels on 17 February 2023. The EU and China welcomed the re-opening of this dedicated channel of communication on human rights issues during President Michel’s visit to China on 1 December 2022, the European External Action Service press realise reads. 🇨🇳China:…
NATO welcomes Kosovo tensions de-escalation
Brussels 29.12.2022 Serbs started dismantling barricades in northern Kosovo on Thursday, December 29, hours after Kosovo reopened its main border crossing with Serbia, easing a surge in tensions that has alarmed world powers. Serbian authorities also ended a three-day-old state of alert for its troops, Tanjug news agency reported, as the sides showed signs of…
MEP support human rights in China
Strasbourg 15.12.2022 Chinese government crackdown on the peaceful protests across the People’s Republic of China caused a vivid reaction of the European Parliament. (Photo:archive) MEPs express their support for protesters fighting for fundamental rights who are being persecuted by the Chinese government, notably in the context of the zero COVID-19 policy. “Discontent is spreading in…
China: Hu Jintao public expulsion
Brussels 22.10.2022 Chinese former party leader Hu Jintao has been led out of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress. Hu Jintao (president 2003-2013) and Xi just before Hu was forced to leave the CCP congress hall #bodylanguage pic.twitter.com/rMLpfa9tDB — Willem Middelkoop (@wmiddelkoop) October 22, 2022 The frail-looking 79-year-old was sitting beside incumbent President…
EU: Charles Michel convenes Council
Brussels 20.10.2022 Invitation letter by President Charles Michel (pictured) to the members of the European Council ahead of their meeting on 20 and 21 October 2022 “Dear colleagues, “I would like to invite you to our European Council meeting on Brussels on 20 and 21 October 2022. “Our discussions in Prague allowed us to have…
China: commitment to Taiwan reunification
Brussels 16.10.2022 Chinese leader Xi Jinping hailed Sunday, October 16, what he views as the Communist Party’s achievements during his decade at the helm and reiterated Beijing’s commitment to reunification with Taiwan, while he gave the opening address at the party’s much awaited congress. #China's Communist Party opens #congress with Xi Jinping cementing powerhttps://t.co/Yo2viAEGiy —…
China prepares party Congress
Brussels 09.10.2022 China’s Communist Party opened Sunday, October 9, a meeting of senior members who will make final arrangements for its twice-a-decade congress where leader Xi Jinping is expected to secure an unprecedented third five-year term as party general secretary.(Image: illustration) China's top leaders meet to make final party congress arrangementshttps://t.co/WhOOuVPZWy — Kyodo News |…
Belarus joins Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Brussels 15.07.2022 Belarus has officially filed a request to become a member state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Secretary General Zhang Ming told the reporters. Belarus has officially filed a request to become a member state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the organization’s Secretary General Zhang Ming said:https://t.co/rh35QspRYJ pic.twitter.com/BqQNFFm8M7 — TASS (@tassagency_en) July…
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