Brussels 03.07.2017 Slovenia’s presidency of the Council of the EU: 1 July – 31 December 2021 The priorities of Slovenia’s presidency are driven by its motto: ‘Together. Resilient. Europe.’ The presidency’s programme focuses on four main areas: In line with the tradition of presiding countries, 🇸🇮 hosted correspondents from Brussels. Their journey through Slovenia &…
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Kremlin draws unfriendly states list
Brussels 17.05.2021 The Czech Republic and the United States have been put on Russia’s blacklist of unfriendly states because of their hostile steps against Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday, May 17. (Image: Moscow, Russia, photo Evgeny Grabovsky) The Czech Republic and the United States have been put on Russia’s blacklist of…
EU provides €3bn assistance to partners
The Council today adopted a decision to provide up to 3 billion euros of macro-financial assistance to ten enlargement and neighbourhood partners to help them cope with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial assistance will be provided in the form of loans on highly favourable terms and allocated as follows: Albania: €180 million…
EU committed to Western Balkans
Initially foreseen to happen in the capital of Croatia, the EU-Western Balkans Zagreb Summit has taken place on 6 May 2020 via video conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The EU is the most important partner of the Western Balkans region and the video conference has underlined the significance of the unique EU-Western Balkans relations….
EU Council response to COVID19
Today 17 March, Members of the European Council held a videoconference on COVID 19 in order to follow up on previous conclusions of 10 March 2020 together with the ECB President, the President of the Eurogroup and the High Representative: “We reaffirmed the need to work together and to do everything necessary to tackle the…
Sassoli defends MEPs position on EU budget
President David Sassoli reminded EU leaders Parliament approval is needed for the EU seven years budget (MFF) and said MEPs would not accept agreement irrelevant to the European ambitions. Sassoli was speaking at the start of an EU Council (EUCO) aimed at finding an agreement between member states on the EU’s next long-term budget. The…
Michel invites to EU Council
*Following the meetings held at Sherpa level, I have decided to call a special meeting of the European Council that will begin on 20 February 2020″ reads letter of the EU president Charles Michel, inviting the EU leaders to the Council. https://twitter.com/eucopresident/status/1221101581971730434?s=21 *The time has come to reach an agreement at our level on the…
Europe biodiversity threatened
“In its conclusions , the Council reaffirms that the EU and its member states will lead and step up efforts to halt biodiversity loss and restore ecosystems. The conclusions provide political guidance for the work towards a post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The Council also calls upon the Commission to develop without delay an ambitious, realistic…
#EUCO: Charles Michel chairs EU Summit
“I look forward to welcoming you to the December European Council – my first European Council meeting as President” reads the invitation letter of the EU Council President Charles Michel.(Image above: archive). PrĂ©paration avant le sommet europĂ©en, climat et dynamisme de l'Europe au menu #EUCO pic.twitter.com/gmoAzmQwwa — Charles Michel (@eucopresident) December 12, 2019 “My intention…
Post-elections EU Summit foreseen end May
European leaders will highly likely meet in an extraordinary summit on 28 May after the elections of the member states’ representatives in the European Parliament, according to the diplomatic source in Brussels. (Image above: archive). Les dirigeants europĂ©ens devraient se rĂ©unir en sommet extraordinaire le 28 mai, après les Ă©lections https://t.co/Mf5PfmtaiQ — Ouest-France (@OuestFrance) May 3,…
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