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On 27 June 2023, the Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing on the "EU's preventive diplomacy - practise makes (not yet) perfect". Members will discuss with three expert speakers what aspects are still missing in EU's foreign policy to successfully carry out preventive diplomacy.

The link between EU's internal and external security, the lack of understanding of the local or cultural context when it comes to EU's actions regarding development or state-building and the lack of will on the part of Member States to step away from their individual interest and to build joint capacity will be examined in order to assess ways for the EU to increase its standing and leverage in conflict prevention. This hearing will serve as input to the upcoming AFET Recommendation on "EU preventive diplomacy in tackling frozen conflicts around the world, missed opportunity or change for the future."

Location : Antall 4Q2
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On 27 June 2023, the Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing on the "EU's preventive diplomacy - practise makes (not yet) perfect". Members will discuss with three expert speakers what aspects are still missing in EU's foreign policy to successfully carry out preventive diplomacy.
The link between EU's internal and external security, the lack of understanding of the local or cultural context when it comes to EU's actions regarding development or state-building and the lack of will on the part of Member States to step away from their individual interest and to build joint capacity will be examined in order to assess ways for the EU to increase its standing and leverage in conflict prevention. This hearing will serve as input to the upcoming AFET Recommendation on "EU preventive diplomacy in tackling frozen conflicts around the world, missed opportunity or change for the future."
Draft programme
Poster
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China’s footprint in European critical assets has grown steadily over time, without any centralised mechanism that could give the European Union (EU) and Member State agencies visibility and scrutiny over projects of strategic significance for Europe’s defence and security. China’s footprint poses specific challenges to Europe’s efforts to protect its critical infrastructure. China’s party-led political system does not allow clear distinctions between commercial, political and military interests, often viewing Chinese state and private companies’ international activities as instruments helping the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) expand its influence in foreign countries and undermine geopolitical rivals. The CCP’s military-civil fusion (MCF) strategy incentivises civilian actors to contribute to the modernisation of the People Liberation Army (PLA) through technology transfer. Chinese companies’ access to EU critical infrastructure thus calls for an analysis of threats to Europe’s defence and security architecture. Using research with original Chinese-language sources, this paper analyses the involvement of China state-linked entities in selected critical sectors — ports, rare metals and undersea cables — to identify short-, medium- and long-term threats to the EU’s strategic sovereignty. These cases expose how entities linked to the Chinese party-state can gain access to and exert influence on assets that are vital to Europe’s security and defence, including transport infrastructure, critical resources and telecommunications networks. This research demonstrates that traditional approaches to infrastructure protection based on direct ownership are insufficient, since China’s party-state can obtain access to critical infrastructure through indirect, equally effective channels. As these cases show, infrastructure protection mechanisms, whose codification and implementation remains incomplete, must be extended to be able to scrutinise the risks that China’s leverage over non-science investors and Chinese state-linked contractors pose to the EU’s critical infrastructure.
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This in-depth analysis (IDA) focuses on how to implement the Strategic Compass’s partnership dimension in the field of security and defence, and how to maximise the potential of the EU’s different strategic partnerships. The report not only provides an up-to-date overview of the most important security and defence partnerships, but also places them in their wider historical context, and in the context of future challenges within a fiercely changing geopolitical landscape. The report maps the EU’s different partnerships and their institutional arrangements, as well as the main policy fields in the realm of security and defence. It offers an in-depth analysis of the core challenges of each major partnership and charts out concrete recommendations for gearing each partnership towards a more impactful realisation of the Strategic Compass’s goals. It also examines how existing cooperation arrangements can be improved, and how new fora can be utilised in a more comprehensive manner. Overall, this IDA seeks to examine and assess in detail how the Strategic Compass’s emphasis on security and defence partnerships can be implemented in practice, and what role the European Parliament can play in this process.
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The press briefing ahead of the Foreign Affairs Council will take place on Friday, 23 June 2023 at 14.00.

On 21 June 2023, the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union hosted the EU-U.S. Ministerial Meeting on Justice and Home Affairs in Stockholm.

Die Botschafterinnen und Botschafter der EU-Mitgliedstaaten haben sich auf den Standpunkt des Rates zu einem neuen Gesetz zum Schutz der Freiheit, des Pluralismus und der Unabhängigkeit der Medien in der EU geeinigt.

Der Rat hat sich auf sein Verhandlungsmandat für zwei Gesetzgebungsvorschläge zur Erhebung und Übermittlung von vorab übermittelten Fluggastdaten geeinigt.

Press briefing ahead of the upcoming General Affairs Council will take place on 22 June 2023 at 12.00.

Der Rat hat heute eine Einigung (allgemeine Ausrichtung) über einen Vorschlag für eine Verordnung über die Wiederherstellung der Natur erzielt. Ziel des Vorschlags ist die Einführung von Wiederherstellungsmaßnahmen bis 2030 für mindestens 20 % der Land- und Meeresgebiete der EU und bis 2050 für alle Ökosysteme, die wiederhergestellt werden müssen. Es werden spezifische rechtsverbindliche Ziele und Verpflichtungen für die Wiederherstellung der Natur in jedem der aufgeführten Ökosysteme – von landwirtschaftlichen Flächen und Wäldern bis hin zu Meeres-, Süßwasser- und städtischen Ökosystemen – festgelegt.

Press briefing ahead of the upcoming Agriculture and Fisheries Council will take place on 22 June 2023 at 14.30.

Der Rat hat heute seinen Standpunkt (allgemeine Ausrichtung) zu dem Vorschlag für eine Verordnung über die Integrität und Transparenz des Energiegroßhandelsmarkts (REMIT) festgelegt. Der Vorschlag zielt darauf ab, einen offenen und fairen Wettbewerb auf den europäischen Energiegroßhandelsmärkten zu fördern, indem der Handel auf der Grundlage von Insider-Informationen verboten und Marktmanipulation verhindert wird.

Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities.

Der Rat hat zwei Personen, die restriktiven Maßnahmen angesichts der Lage in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo unterliegen, nach Urteilen des EuGH (Gericht) von der Liste gestrichen.

Das Gipfeltreffen für einen neuen globalen Finanzierungspakt am Donnerstag und Freitag (22./23. Juni) in Paris könnte Frankreichs „Klimadiplomatie“ stärken. Gleichzeitig besteht für Präsident Emmanuel Macron die Möglichkeit, sich als wichtigen Akteur bei der Finanzierung internationaler Entwicklungshilfen zu positionieren.

Die beiden wichtigsten wirtschaftspolitischen Ankündigungen der Europäischen Kommission in dieser Woche zeugen von der Orientierungslosigkeit Europas, das zwischen widerstreitenden Interessen der Mitgliedstaaten, alten Ideen und neuer Geopolitik gefangen ist.

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Beim neuen Cybersicherheitsgesetz wird auf europäische Ebene über den Umgang von ausgenutzten Hacker-Schwachstellen diskutiert. Der Vorschlag einer paneuropäischen Meldeplattform für diesen Zweck steht im Raum.

The winner of 2023 LUX Audience Award will be announced on 27 June in a ceremony at the European Parliament’s hemicycle in Brussels.
Committee on Culture and Education

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