EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini will travel to the Western Balkans from first to forth March, visiting Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. “For the European Union the work with the Western Balkans, a region in the heart of Europe, is a key priority. I work to see every…
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EU diplomatic appointments
Today Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy announced today the appointment of two new Heads of EU Delegations. Michael REITERER has been appointed as Head of the EU Delegation to the Republic of Korea. He is currently Principal Adviser to the Managing Director for Asia and the…
Pence welcome in Brussels
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Mogherini condolences on UN Amb.Churkin passing away
Federica Mogherini, the EU top diplomat sent tonight a letter of condolences on the passing of Ambassador Vitaly Churkin to the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov. “With Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the Russian Federation has lost one of its most eminent diplomats. At various occasions, I also personally appreciated his vast experience and…
Bill Gates pays visit to EU
“We shared, I think, the assessment of the fact that the best way of building security for our own citizens is investing in development in the rest of the world,” said EU top diplomat Federcia Mogherini. Development outside the EU is the best investment for Europeans in their own security and stability continued Mogherini, following…
EU against child-soldier practise
Ahead of the International Day against the use of child soldiers – 12 February -the EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini and the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, pledge to intensify their efforts to end the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict. BBCAfrica: UN alarm at al-Shabab child soldiers…
Mogherini in US: 'mission impossible'
Anna van Densky, OPINION Difficult to imagine less suitable personality to represent nowadays the EU diplomacy in the US, than an ardent promoter of political Islam in Europe, an Italian Socialist – Federica Mogherini, with both Socialism and Islam living winter in the EU. However the gravity of the situation is beyond personal views and…
EU-US: Tillerson received Mogherini
The EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini had her first meeting with new U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson on Thrusday 9.02.2017. discussing Transatlantic relations, the common challenge of countering terrorism, the ongoing work to strengthen European Defence, relations with Russia, the Iran nuclear deal and the main crises from Ukraine to Syria. “I was pleased to…
EU congratulates Farmajo
“We congratulate Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo on his election as President of the Federal Republic of Somalia”, – said in a joint statement the EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini and Commissioners Neven Mimica and Christos Stylianides following the Presidential election in Somalia. “The new President will face among others the rightful expectations of the Somali population of…
The wreck of EU foreign policy
Anna van Densky, OPINION With flows of migrants from Libyan cost, the EU Southern Neighbourhood, ravaged by Islamic terrorists, and the defrozen conflict in the EU Eastern Neighbourhood with tanks moving along the vicinities in Donetsk, the EU foreign affairs Council, 6.2.2017, finds itself in the worst situation in years, if not in decades, since…