EU: There is no immediate threat to the European Union’s food security

«There is no immediate threat to EU food securitySaid the EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakidou following a meeting with Czech Agriculture Minister Zdenek Nekula in Prague.

However “we plan short-term and long-term measures that we will take to mitigate these effects, safeguard food security and enhance the resilience of our food systemsHe added.

At the same time, he visited a refugee support center from Ukraine.

“Working in a spirit of unprecedented solidarity during the coronavirus crisis has made us stronger. “This spirit will guide us again during the current crisis, which I am sure we will overcome together,” said Ms. Kyriakidou. After the meeting he had with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health Vlastimil Valek Notes the Efforts to Provide Medical Care to Those Leaving Ukraine“Including transporting patients in need of emergency hospital care from Member States whose hospitals are under pressure to other Member States through the EU Solidarity Mechanism”.

The EU calls for the creation of a solidarity fund for Ukraine

Leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union call for the creation of a solidarity fund to help Ukraine to recover financially after Russian invasionmentions their announcement that was made public after the end of the work of the first of the two days of the Summit.

The fund will be used to help Ukraine recover from the “catastrophe and huge losses” suffered by Russia, the joint statement said.

It is added that A meeting of international donors will be organized to raise funds for the country after “the Russian offensive is over.”

EU leaders are still committed to helping the Ukrainian government meet “its immediate needs”.

Earlier o NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberghad announced that Ukraine would be strengthened and that 40,000 troops and anti-missile systems will be sent to the east wing of the Alliance, while the war in the country continues. To receive a few hours after the response of the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharovawhich characterized “Dangerous and destabilizing” the “concentration of forces on the east wing” of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He also spoke in favor of biological and chemical weapons laboratories and the United States, calling the summit a “brainwashing”.

The EU accuses Russia of committing war crimes

The European Union (EU) has accused Russia of committing war crimes in Ukrainewith its final announcement Summit in Brussels to stress that Moscow must “be accountable as defined by international law.”

“Russia is launching attacks on the civilian population and targeting political infrastructure, including hospitals, health facilities, schools and shelters,” reads the text of the European Council conclusions.

“These war crimes must stop immediately,” he added.

Source: News Beast

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