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What has the Commission proposed today? Following the European Council meeting of 27 June 2024, the European Commission has proposed to establish a Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism which will support G7 partners and the Union in issuing loans of up to €45 billion to Ukraine.

Thank you very much Mister President, dear Volodymir, Thank you for welcoming me again in Kyiv. This is now the eighth time that I have been here since the brutal invasion of Russia in Ukraine and this visit comes at a crucial time.

Good morning everyone, And a very warm welcome to you, Fatih Birol. Let me thank you and the International Energy Agency for the excellent cooperation we have developed over the years. In recent and mostly difficult times, we have always been able to rely on each other.

President von der Leyen delivered the following statement earlier today in a press conference with Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, on support for Ukraine's energy security in the coming winter

Today, I have met with the Conference of Presidents of the political groups in the European Parliament. In this meeting I have presented to the Parliament the planned structure of the new college, based on my political guidelines, on which we worked together; intensive weeks of negotiations with the

On the International Day to Protect Education from Attack, the EU recalls that attacks on education deprive children of their fundamental right to learn, impact their immediate and long-term development and deprive them from a better and more peaceful future.

Today, a first batch of 1 million computer and arts textbooks printed in the EU for Ukrainian schoolchildren will be delivered to Ukrainian authorities. These newly printed books, in Ukrainian, will bring the total number of textbooks for Ukraine since the start of the war to 1.5 million.

Today, in Yerevan, the European Commission and the Republic of Armenia announced the start of a visa liberalisation dialogue. This process aims to support Armenia in achieving a visa-free regime for short-stays with the EU...

With relentless attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, the Commission is boosting its humanitarian funding to vulnerable Ukrainians with an additional €40 million ahead of the approaching winter.