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The Council imposed restrictive measures against 18 individuals and five entities under the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, because of their responsibility for serious human rights violations and abuses in Afghanistan, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Ukraine and Russia.

The Council extended the framework for targeted restrictive measures to address the situation in Lebanon for an additional year, until 31 July 2024.

The Council approved conclusions setting out EU priorities at the United Nations during the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (September 2023 – September 2024).

Trade with the United States: Council authorises negotiations on EU-US Critical Minerals Agreement.

The Council appoints 2 European prosecutors to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Council gives greenlight to the signature and provisional application of the new EU/Africa-Caribbean-Pacific Partnership agreement.

The Council extended the mandates of the EU Special Representatives in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Kosovo* and for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia for one year.

The Council renewed the EU terrorist list setting out persons, groups and entities subject to restrictive measures with a view to combating terrorism for a further six months.

The Council adopted an assistance measure worth €20 million under the EPF that will benefit the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Council prolonged restrictive measures in view of Russia's actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine by six months.

The Council adopted today a regulation which renews and expands the temporary suspension of all outstanding tariffs and the entry-price system that are still applicable to seven agricultural products for another year, until 24 July 2024.

The EU issued a press statement following the EU-Bosnia and Herzegovina Stabilisation and Association Council meeting.

Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia called on the European Commission to extend their ban on Ukrainian grain imports until the end of 2023 in a bid to safeguard their farmers and agricultural sector.

Discover the measures reinforcing Parliament’s integrity and closing loopholes to protect the institution and MEPs from outside interference.

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DRAFT REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the Ukraine Facility
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Budgets
Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Michael Gahler

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Leading EU banks are still operating in Russia despite a growing risk of being plundered by the Kremlin, as well as dragging their brands through the mud.

According to the ECB lending survey, demand for corporate loans fell 42 percent in the second quarter of 2023, and 38 percent in the first quarter. "The decrease was again substantially stronger than expected by banks," the ECB reported.

France's extensive use of anti-terrorism legislation bears witness to the increasing authoritarianism that comes with the expansion of the security state, hitting several freedoms France would normally claim to uphold: freedom of thought, of speech, of travel, and of assembly.

When two children are arguing over a toy, there are two options: you either take the toy away or make sure that everyone has a toy. And this is exactly the kind of dilemma the Commission is facing over the age-old question of agri-trade vs. environment.

Under the EU’s new digital rulebook, online platforms must let auditors look under the hood and grade their algorithms. But several questions remain around this unprecedented task.