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On 10 April 2025, on the occasion of the EU-Ukraine Business Summit in Brussels, we reaffirmed our commitment to Ukraine's future in the European Union.
From 10 to 11 April, Brussels hosted the EU-Ukraine Business Summit. Co-organised by the European Commission, the Government of Ukraine, the Polish Presidency of the EU Council, and Italy – as host of the 2025 Ukraine Recovery Conference – the Summit brought together over 700 key stakeholders.
Today, the European Commission announced the 15 winners of the 6th edition of the EU Award for Roma Integration in the Western Balkans and Türkiye. This year’s award recognises achievements promoting Roma integration through education.
At the ADRIA Summit 2025 in Montenegro, today the European Union announced a Call for Expressions of Interest to mobilise private investments in the Western Balkans aiming to support the region's economic growth and integration into the EU Single Market.
Today the European Union is taking a series of steps to further bolster its support for Ukraine.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission: “Our commitment to Ukraine is firm as ever. We work across the board to strengthen the country and support a just and lasting peace on Ukraine
Finance contracts have been signed for three new public sector projects worth €300 million under the European Union’s Ukraine Facility. Today’s signing follows the guarantee agreement approved just a month ago with the European Commission unlocking €2 billion of EIB investments for Ukraine.
Today, Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos, participated in the 10th EU-Ukraine Association Council meeting where she represented the European Commission.
Ahead of International Roma Day on 8 April, Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness Roxana Mînzatu, Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management, Hadja Lahbib, and Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos issued the following statement:
Today, Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification Valdis Dombrovskis and Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos met Türkiye's Minister of Treasury and Finance Mehmet Şimşek in Brussels for a High-Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) between the European Union and Türkiye.
Thousands of young people will soon have the chance to explore Europe for free with DiscoverEU. The European Commission has opened applications for a new DiscoverEU round, making nearly 36,000 travel passes available to 18-year-olds across Europe.
The new legislation, including Foreign Agents Registration Act and Law on Broadcasting, adopted by the parliament, without due public consultations, give additional tools to the Georgian authorities to supress dissent and tighten the policy of repression.
The Ukraine Donor Platform’s Steering Committee held its thirteenth meeting today, gathering for the second time in person in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. The meeting brought together senior representatives of Platform members, observers, as well as International Financial Institutions.
The European Commission continues to support Ukraine by disbursing a third regular payment of nearly €3.5 billion as part of the Ukraine Facility. This funding, which is under the first pillar of the EU's Ukraine Facility, will enhance Ukraine's macro-financial stability...
Starting today, municipalities in the Western Balkans can apply to benefit from the WiFi4WB (Wi-Fi for Western Balkans) initiative, which will provide free Wi-Fi hotspots to up to 500 municipalities across the Western Balkans.
We had a very good meeting of the Coalition of the Willing. The Coalition of the Willing has gotten bigger, stronger and very determined. I have basically three key takeaways. The first was the broad discussion we had on how to step up the support for Ukraine in the short term...
Tomorrow, Executive Vice-President Raffaele Fitto and Commissioner Marta Kos will kick-start the much anticipated Interreg GO! event held in the twin cities of Gorizia, Italy, and Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The two cities are the European Capitals of Culture in 2025.
Now it is only two weeks after we last met, that you, António, have gathered us here again today. I think it was a very productive meeting. We discussed indeed competitiveness, and I presented our Competitiveness Compass with a Clean Industrial Deal...
On Friday 21 March 2025, the President of the European Council, António Costa and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, together with High Representative Kaja Kallas, had a video conference meeting with the Prime Minister of Iceland Kristrún Frostadóttir...
Today, the European Commission has disbursed an additional €1 billion tranche of its exceptional Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) loan to Ukraine, to be repaid with proceeds from immobilised Russian State assets in the EU, reinforcing the EU's role as the largest donor…
Today's detention of Istanbul mayor İmamoğlu and the arrests and charges brought against elected officials, political activists, civil society and businesses representatives, journalists, and others since the beginning of the year, give rise to questions regarding Türkiye's adherence to its...