I welcome the EU27’s unanimous agreement on a revision of the long-term budget (Multiannual Financial Framework) which includes the new €50 billion ‘Ukraine Facility’. Ukraine must benefit from this much-needed aid as soon as possible (with a potential first payment in March). With negotiations underway,
New border controls onsome British food imports from the European Union cameinto forceWednesday for the first time since Brexit. Meat, eggs, fish and dairy are among a raft of fresh produce that will now require “export health certificates” and other paperwork before entering the United Kingdom. Companies must
The EU needs a long-term political vision and institutional and financial reforms to ensure its capacity to absorb new members, MEPs say in a report adopted on Tuesday. In a joint report adopted on Tuesday by 56 votes for, 20 against and 6 abstentions, MEPs from
EPP Foreign Affairs Ministers, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Italy Antonio Tajani and EPP Vice-President David McAllister MEP, met this morning in Brussels to prepare the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) agenda. Radoslaw Sikorski, the newly appointed Minister of Foreign
MEPs demand that all hostages are immediately and unconditionally released and the terrorist organisation Hamas is dismantled. In a resolution adopted on Thursday, MEPs express their deepest sorrow over the innocent victims on both sides. They call for a permanent ceasefire and to restart efforts towards
MEPs criticise the Commission’s proposal to ban mobile bottom fisheries in marine protected areas and want reforms of the EU common fisheries strategy to address specific issues. Following a morning devoted to debating the EU’s fisheries strategy, in particular the proposals conveyed in the Commission’s fisheries package,