The European Union has given its final approval for Croatia to adopt the euro early next year, when it will become the 20th member of the currency zone, according to Bloomberg. The bloc’s finance ministers meeting in Brussels backed the move on Tuesday after the Commission recommended that the country of 3.9 million people be […]
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EU: The Council of Ministers approved the provision of additional assistance of 1 billion euros to Ukraine
The Council of Ministers decided to urgently provide additional macro-financial assistance (MFA) of EUR 1 billion to Ukraine. Together with the €1.2bn emergency MFA disbursed earlier this year, total EU macroeconomic financial support to Ukraine since the start of the war now stands at €2.2bn and is expected to increase further in the coming months […]
The EU has frozen €13.8 billion in Russian assets
The European Union has so far frozen assets worth 13.8 billion euros owned by Russian oligarchs, other individuals and entities sanctioned over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a European official said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. The official said the vast majority of these amounts came from just five of the 27 EU member states, calling […]
Arms smuggling in Ukraine: EU fears ‘Yugoslavia scenario’
The EU today stepped up its cooperation with Moldova to help it control its border with Ukraine and prevent the risk of arms smuggling from the war-torn country. European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced the creation of a “support hub for internal security and border management in Moldova”, a candidate country for EU membership, […]
Borrell-Blinken: Albania and North Macedonia are ready to take the next step towards EU membership
European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken welcomed the EU’s proposal to find a solution to the dispute between North Macedonia and Bulgaria and pointed out that the Skopje decision will be important for their European path. “At this critical moment in European history, marked by […]
Morocco and the EU agreed to intensify their cooperation on the issue of migration
Morocco and the European Union agreed today to step up cooperation to tackle people-trafficking after at least 23 migrants were killed trying to cross into the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlasca, EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson and Moroccan Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit met today in Rabat to discuss how to […]
Europe can live without Facebook and Instagram
Ireland’s data protection regulator has moved a step closer to a ruling that could halt EU-US data transfers from Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram, according to an updated draft shared with other EU regulators on Thursday, Reuters reported. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued an interim injunction in 2020 to block the mechanism Meta uses to […]
Macron calls on North Macedonia to take the decisive step regarding its dispute with Bulgaria
French President Emmanuel Macron has called on North Macedonia to take the decisive step that will strengthen its European perspective and allow it to start accession negotiations with the EU. France, which held the presidency of the EU for the past six months, has tabled a compromise proposal to resolve the disputes between North Macedonia […]
EU approves €11bn Cohesion Policy Partnership Agreement with Sofia
The European Commission announced today the approval of the partnership agreement with Bulgaria, which sets out the country’s investment strategy for the Cohesion Policy amounting to 11 billion euros for the period 2021-2027. Cohesion policy funds will promote economic, social and territorial cohesion in Bulgaria’s regions and help deliver key EU priorities such as the […]
Germany wants faster negotiations with the countries of the Western Balkans for EU membership
The head of German diplomacy, Annalena Burbock, said yesterday that Berlin wants talks to be accelerated in order to bring the Western Balkan states closer to the European Union. No more time should be wasted in the integration and harmonization effort, the Greens politician emphasized after her meeting with the Slovenian Foreign Minister, Tania Fajon. […]
