Originally intended to be a relaxed format for informal high-level exchanges, perhaps a large event with nearly 50 heads of state and government is not the right framework for discussing war and peace. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev did not even attend the third meeting of the European Political Community (EPC) in Granada. Therefore, the planned […]
In response to tensions in northern Kosovo, the UK is providing 200 additional soldiers to reinforce the NATO protection force Kfor on the ground. It is above all a symbolic step. After peaking 20 years ago with nearly 50,000 troops, NATO had long been steadily scaling back its presence. This was done in the hope […]
The day after the bloody escalation in northern Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić received the Russian ambassador in Belgrade. He had informed Vladimir Putin’s envoy that “ethnic cleansing” was being carried out “in Kosovo”, Vučić wrote on Instagram to the handshake picture. Not a word on the social media platform about the attack by heavily […]
Ukraine is pushing for the EU to expand energy sanctions against Moscow to include Russian LNG gas. Russia has been able to massively expand exports of liquefied natural gas to some EU states, Vladyslav Vlasyuk said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s sanctions adviser was at a coordination meeting in Brussels this week, where he urged a ban […]
The United Kingdom is returning as a fully associated member to the €95.5 billion EU research program, Horizon Europe. London and Brussels announced the deal in a joint statement on Thursday. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen emphasized that the agreement underscores the EU and the UK as key partners and allies, working together at […]
The Foreign Ministry in Stockholm and the EU Commission have confirmed that a Swedish citizen has been held in Iran for more than 500 days on dubious charges. The New York Times reported on Monday about the 33-year-old man, whose name is said to be Johan Floderus and who was last employed by the European […]
The initial skepticism seems to have been overcome. After the informal meetings of defense and foreign ministers in Toledo, Spain, at the end of August, Josep Borrell was able to report broad consensus on his plan to put the financing of military aid to Ukraine on a stable footing – and thus to increase the […]
The EU is in danger of failing in its ambitious commitments to procure ammunition for Ukraine. The member states have so far delivered 224,000 artillery shells and 2300 missiles, EU foreign affairs representative Josep Borrell announced at the informal meeting of defense ministers in Toledo. Thus, at the halfway point, only a quarter of the […]
Difficult discussions on aid for Ukraine and also on the situation in North Africa are guaranteed: The defense and foreign ministers are meeting informally in Toledo today and tomorrow, respectively, under the Spanish presidency. The talks will focus on Josep Borrell’s plan to put future support for Ukraine on a stable footing.The EU’s foreign policy […]
The announced dispute on the open stage did not take place. The NATO summit in Vilnius ended quite harmoniously on Wednesday. Ukraine is moving closer to the military alliance than ever before, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during his joint appearance with Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Both were at pains in unison to forget the differences […]