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The Commission has today paid €1.5 billion under the  Macro-financial Assistance + package for Ukraine worth up to €18 billion. With this instrument, the EU seeks to help Ukraine cover its immediate funding needs, with stable, predictable, and sizeable financial support in 2023. With today's payment

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 75 years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR), which enshrined the rights of all human beings to have

The Commission has decided to transfer €135 million of the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument, originally planned for 2021-2027 Interreg NEXT programmes with Russia and Belarus, to other Interreg programmes with Ukraine and Moldova.

Today, the European Commission decided to register a European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) entitled ‘Preservation and development of Ukrainian culture, education, language, and traditions in EU states'.

This 9 August marks the third anniversary of the fraudulent presidential elections in Belarus. On this day three years ago, hundreds of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets to peacefully defend their right to choose their own future.

Today, the Commission selected 159 projects for funding under Erasmus+ Capacity Building for Higher Education, which supports the modernisation and quality of higher education in third countries worldwide.

The European Commission welcomes today's adoption by the Council of further targeted restrictive measures arising from Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, and in response to Belarus's involvement in the aggression.

Ahead of the Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, on 2 August, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, Věra Jourová, Vice-President for Values and Transparency, and Helena Dalli, Commissioner for Equality, stated:

As several countries grapple with rapidly spreading wildfires, the EU steps in to reinforce firefighting efforts and provide much-needed support to the affected communities with over 490 firefighters and 9 firefighting planes deployed to Greece and Tunisia since 18 July.

Today, the Steering Committee of the Multi-agency Donor Coordination Platform for Ukraine met for the fifth time.

The Commission has today paid a sixth tranche of €1.5 billion under the Macro-financial Assistance (MFA) “Plus” package for Ukraine worth up to €18 billion.

On 17 July the first explanatory meeting on the resources, agriculture and cohesion cluster (Cluster 5) was held. Cluster 5 covers agriculture and rural development, food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, fisheries, regional policy and coordination of structural instruments

The European Union supports a new project to upscale support to existing and established independent Russian and Belarusian media working in the EU and that maintain significant audiences back home. The Free Media Hub EAST project, led by the Prague Civil Society Centre, is set to award

Since day one of the invasion, the European Union and its G7 partners have stood shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine.
We have provided the brave Ukrainian people humanitarian support, substantial financial assistance as well as weapons and training.

A study published by the Commission and the European Investment Bank today suggests that the European track gauge on lines to Lviv and Chiṣinău should be deployed as a first step to improving connections between Poland and Ukraine, and between Romania and Moldova.

On 9 July, the Commission welcomed the twelve-month prolongation of the operators' agreement allowing displaced refugees from Ukraine to stay connected across borders. The Commission has facilitated the agreement between 22 European and seven Ukrainian operators to prolong the agreement

The latest Standard Eurobarometer survey conducted in June 2023 and published today shows that EU citizens continue to back overwhelmingly the energy transition and to expect massive investment in renewables.

Today, High Representative/Vice-President, Josep Borrell, and Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, issued the following statement to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide

Yesterday afternoon, in Brussels, Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius and the Minister of Environment and Physical Planning of North Macedonia, Kaja Sukova, signed an agreement on North Macedonia's association to the LIFE programme for environment...