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The thirteenth meeting of the Accession Conference with Serbia at Ministerial level was held today in Brussels. This is the second Intergovernmental Conference since the Council approved the revised enlargement methodology

The European Commission will mobilise an additional €30 million to further strengthen its support to the people of Belarus. This new funding will complement and expand the already existing EU support for youth, independent media, small and medium-sized enterprises in exile, and culture...

The European Commission has today signed an agreement worth €35 million with the BGK, Polish Development Bank, to set up an innovative arrangement to support EU Member States in the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to the Eastern Partnership countries.

Dear Madam President Daszyńska-Muzyczka, Minister Rau, thank very much for joining us today, here in the Berlaymont. I think that we have some very good news - we are launching an initiative that we have been working on together

The fourteenth meeting of the Accession Conference with Montenegro at Ministerial level was held today in Brussels...

I am very pleased that we held today already the second political Intergovernmental Conference with Montenegro under the revised methodology...

The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached yesterday evening by the European Parliament and the Council to make 2022 the European Year of Youth.

Brussels, 7 December 2021 Today’s fourth meeting of the Stabilisation and Association Council Council with Kosovo was a welcome and timely opportunity

The EU has allocated additional humanitarian aid to support vulnerable refugees and migrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina. While many refugees and migrants are accommodated in EU-funded facilities, it is estimated that over 1,000 people are outside the temporary accommodation facilities...

Today, the EU has allocated an additional €325 million to extend the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme until early 2023. The ESSN provides more than 1.5 million refugees in Turkey with monthly cash transfers to cover their essential needs.

The Council decided today to impose restrictive measures on an additional 17 individuals and 11 entities in view of the situation in Belarus...

The Council adopted today a set of decisions establishing four assistance measures under the European Peace Facility (EPF) in support of Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and the Republic of Mali.

Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, and Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, will take part in the EU – Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs tomorrow and on Friday in Brdo, Slovenia.

Today, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, and the Turkish Minister of Health, Fahrettin Koca, met virtually for the first meeting of the EU-Turkey High-Level Dialogue on public health.

The Commission is today putting forward a set of temporary asylum and return measures to assist Latvia, Lithuania and Poland in addressing the emergency situation at the EU's external border with Belarus.

Today, the European Commission and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy launch the Global Gateway, the new European Strategy to boost smart, clean and secure links in digital, energy and transport and strengthen health, education and research systems across the world.

The Sixth Regional Forum of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) gathered Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Euro-Mediterranean region on 29 November 2021 in Barcelona under the Co-Presidency of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the European Union to take stock of progress achieved and to guide

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, chaired today the third EU-Southern Neighbourhood Ministerial Meeting in Barcelona

On Monday 29 November, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President Josep Borrell will co-chair the 6th Regional Forum of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) together with Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Safadi.