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Today, EU Member States have given their political agreement for a new package of sanctions against Russia. I welcome this. Russia's decision to recognise the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk is illegal and completely unacceptable.

The decision of the Russian Federation to recognise as independent entities and send Russian troops to certain areas of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts is illegal and unacceptable.

Following a request from the Government of Ukraine for emergency assistance due to the threat of further escalation, the European Commission is coordinating the delivery of essential supplies to support the civilian population via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.

Tomorrow Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, will be in Warsaw, Poland.

President von der Leyen and President Michel condemn in the strongest possible terms the decision by the Russian President to proceed with the recognition of the non-government controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine as independent entities.

Following a request from the Government of Ukraine for emergency assistance due to the threat of further escalation, the European Commission is coordinating the delivery of essential supplies to support the civilian population via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.

For the next two days, Commission President von der Leyen, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/ Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, will attend the 6th European Union–African Union Summit (EU-AU), which gathers leaders from the EU and the AU

In the margins of the 6th European Union - African Union summit on 17 and 18 February 2022, over 10,000 delegates from Europe, Africa and beyond participated in the first Africa-Europe Week, opened by President von der Leyen.

Allow me to talk a little bit about which has been the role of European diplomacy in these events. It has been said that Europe was missing in action. We have heard that the Europeans were missing in action and that things were happening without our presence and without our participation...

The very reason why our Union was created is to put an end to all European wars. So it is particularly painful for me to address you today, as we face the largest build-up of troops on European soil since the darkest days of the Cold War.

En marge du 6ème Sommet Union européenne-Union africaine des 17-18 février, la première Semaine Afrique-Europe a été inaugurée aujourd'hui en même temps que le 7ème Forum des affaires UE-Afrique (EABF).

9 February marks 18 months since the falsified elections of August 2020. One year and a half on, the Lukashenko regime in Belarus continues wide-spread human rights violations and its brutal repression against all segments of the Belarusian society...

Commissioners for Energy, Kadri Simson, and Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, will be in Baku, Azerbaijan, to attend the 8th Ministerial Meeting of the Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council tomorrow.

The European Commission has tabled a proposal for a new emergency macro-financial assistance (MFA) programme for Ukraine of up to €1.2 billion. This proposal follows an earlier request from the Ukrainian authorities and direct discussions between Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukraine

Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis will be in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 31 January and 1 February. Today, the Executive Vice-President will be meeting Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and other government representatives, with a press point at 15:15 CET...

Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, is currently in Kyiv on a two-day mission to reaffirm the EU's strong support to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and its socio-economic resilience with a new financial assistance package...

Tomorrow, 27 January, marks the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. To remember the millions of of Jewish women, men and children as well as all other victims murdered by the Nazi regime, the Commission, for the first time, will illuminate its headquarter

Thank you very much, good afternoon dear Deputy Prime Minister, dear Olga [Stefanishyna]! I am very pleased to be in Kyiv today. Earlier, I already had the opportunity to met President Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Shmyhal and Speaker Stefanchuk...

Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, will be in Kyiv on 26-27 January. The visit signals the EU's continued commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and in support of Ukraine's socio-economic resilience, as announced by President von der Leyen.