Brussels 22.07.2024 While entering the Foreign affairs Council meeting the EU top diplomat Josep Borrell said, that there are two main topics related to Ukraine to discuss: how to avoid the complete destruction of the electricity system, when 70% of the power generation capacity in Ukraine has been destroyed, and how approach the winter 2024-25…
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EU renews anti-Russian sanctions
Brussels 16.07.2024 Today the Council renewed the EU restrictive measures in view of the Russian Federation’s continuing actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine for a further six months, until 31 January 2025. (Image above: Council meeting, Brussels) These sanctions, first introduced in 2014, were significantly expanded since February 2022 in response to Russia’s unprovoked, unjustified…
EU: Erasmus+ Programme Ukraine inclusion
Brussels 16.07.2024 Fourteen projects involving 65 organisations from Ukraine have been recommended for funding under the European Union Erasmus+ Programme for Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education Action (CBHE). This year, the 151 projects proposed for funding include the participation as partners or coordinators of over 1,500 higher education stakeholders from almost 120…
NATO Summit: 75 years of Atlanticism
Brussels 12.07.2024 Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg celebrated NATO’s 75th anniversary with US President Joe Biden and all other Allied Heads of State and Government in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday (9-11 July 2024). In a speech at the Mellon Auditorium, where the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949, the Secretary General underlined that NATO is…
Borrell: Ukraine should prevail
Brussels 12.07.2024 The EU top diplomat Josep Borrell made remarks upon arrival to the NATO Summit in Washington D.C., where the allies celebrated NATO’s 75th anniversary with US President Joe Biden and all other Allied Heads of State and Government. “During 75 years [of its existence] NATO has been ensuring peace and protecting the free…
Zelensky admits heavy human losses
Brussels 27.06.2024 At the margins of the EU Summit Zelensky signed three security agreements days after the EU announced it was opening formal membership negotiations with Kyiv. Among them two bilateral with Estonia, and Lithuania, and one general with the EU “as whole”. “For the first time, this agreement will enshrine the commitment of all…
Charles Michel hosts crucial EU Summit
Brussels 27.06.2024 Invitation letter by President Charles Michel (pictured above): “I would like to invite you to the European Council meeting of 27 and 28 June. This will be a particularly significant meeting, as we face both a substantive agenda and critical decisions that will shape our path forward. “Among these decisions, three stand out…
Borrell condemns Kremlin EU media ban
Brussels 26.06.2024 “The EU condemns the totally unfounded decision by the Russian authorities to block access to over eighty European media in Russia” reads the statement by the EU top diplomat Josep Borrell on Russia’s decision to block a number of European media in response to his decision to block a number of Russian sites….
Russia to mirror EU media restrictions
Luxembourg 24.06.2024 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova (pictured) underscored that “it is useless to hope for the commitment of the EU authorities in Brussels to its international legal obligations” Subsequently Moscow has developed and would announce retaliatory measures following the restrictions on access to Russian media in the European Union, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria…
EU: Ukraine on top of diplomatic agenda
Luxembourg 24.06.2024 The ongoing Foreign Affairs Council is going to reflect upon a waste agenda of the international issues. “On the table – first, as always – [is] Ukraine. After the Summit [for Peace in Ukraine] in Switzerland, where a diplomatic track has been opened. And the answer from Putin travelling to North Korea, travelling…
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