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AMENDMENTS 1 – 271 - Draft report Relations with Belarus
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Petras Auštrevičius

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EU Commissioner Thierry Breton urged on Thursday (15 June) member states to use the prerogatives of the 5G Toolbox to restrict or exclude high-risk vendors and announced Commission measures to free its internal networks from Huawei and ZTE. The second...

A meeting between defence industries and NATO on Thursday (15 June) has caused a serious backlash, mainly from those who were not invited, potentially jeopardising the military alliance’s drive to support a badly needed ramp-up of production.

The European Central Bank raised euro zone borrowing costs to their highest level in 22 years on Thursday (15 June) and said stubbornly high inflation all but guaranteed another move next month and likely beyond that too.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken flies to Beijing this weekend with expectations low that he will make headway on the long list of disputes between the US and China.

Pressure to speed cuts in carbon pollution took a back seat at UN climate talks that ended late Thursday night (15 June), as emerging economies, including China, demanded that rich ones vastly scale up climate financing.

Average global temperatures at the start of June were the warmest the European Union's climate monitoring unit has ever recorded for the period, trouncing previous records by a "substantial margin", it said on Thursday (15 June).

In today’s edition of the Capitals, find out more about NGOs slamming Macron’s ‘working lunch’ with Saudi Arabia’s bin Salman, Spain pushing for an ambitious migration pact during their EU Council presidency, and so much more.

Some countries in Europe should stop being “hypocrites” about migration and focusing only on how much money should be granted to those countries that will host refugees, Greece’s leftist main opposition leader and former prime minister Alexis Tsipras told EURACTIV.com in an exclusive statement.

The German government faces a CO2 gap of 200 million tonne to reach its 2030 climate target, largely due to a lack of action in the transport sector.

A few weeks ago, the UN Secretary General proposed as part of its input on the Global Digital Compact to set up a one-stop-shop that would have radical implications for the current internet governance. We discuss the potential implications of the...

Russia announced plans on 15 June to stage elections in occupied parts of Ukraine in just three months, Moscow's latest bid to signal it is in control even as a Ukrainian counteroffensive has pushed its forces back in some areas.

The US State Department has called on Serbia to immediately release the three Kosovo policemen Pristina said were kidnapped on Wednesday, also asking that both sides move to de-escalate tensions. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Albin Kurti said the police officers...

The effects of a worldwide crisis have hit Serbia and the whole region, and layoffs were a necessary answer to unfavourable macroeconomic circumstances, HTEC group corporate communications director Katarina Urošević told EURACTIV. A wave of layoffs has been plaguing the...

Serbia and Kosovo must continue the EU-backed dialogue process as it is the only real way to resolve the tensions in Kosovo and calm the situation, said President Nataša Pirc Musar after meeting with Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vučić in Belgrade...

A new government has been voted into power by the Romanian Parliament on Thursday, following an unprecedented rotation of prime ministers, wherein Marcel Ciolacu, the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), took on the role in a cabinet that...

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) had to defend agreeing to the new deal on migration solidarity to MPs on Thursday after opposition parties said the Czech government had betrayed national interests. The reform of the EU migration policy rules...

Wednesday’s vote of no confidence – where only 34 out of 136 Slovak MPs expressed confidence in the technocratic government of Ľudovít Ódor – means less oversight and power for a government already reluctant to vote in Council on controversial...

Watching the quality of bank credit, directing support to the most vulnerable and ending support measures for energy are some of the recommendations the OECD made on Thursday to Portugal to improve its economic situation. The OECD recommends improving the...