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The Houthi militant group in Yemen is using the Gaza war to mask its own wild agenda, a former British diplomat has said, as the EU prepares to join the US in Red Sea clashes.

On Wednesday 24 January 2024, Members from the AFET and BUDG Committees will hear the Commission present its proposal for a regulation establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans. Its purpose is to set up a new financing instrument to provide EUR 6 billion to the countries of the Western Balkans, consisting of EUR 2 billion in grants and EUR 4 billion in highly concessional loans.
The proposal is modelled on the Ukraine Facility. Disbursement of funds would be conditional on the implementation of structural reforms, e.g. the rule of law or anti-corruption, to be identified in national reform agendas. The creation of the Facility is conditional on the EU's long term framework (multiannual financial framework 2021-207) mid-term revision. The proposal also overlaps considerably with IPA III, the main EU instrument to promote pre-accession reforms in the countries of the Western Balkans.
Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans - Regulation proposal
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Greece was condemned by the European Court of Human Rights in a case involving the deadly 2014 shooting of a Syrian refugee by the Greek coast guard.

AMENDMENTS 1 - 31 - Draft opinion 2022 discharge: General budget of the EU - Commission
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Katalin Cseh

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AMENDMENTS 1 - 25 - Draft opinion 2022 discharge: General budget of the EU - European External Action Service
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Katalin Cseh

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AMENDMENTS 1 - 224 - Draft report Recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS on the situation in Syria
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Nathalie Loiseau

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REPORT on human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2023
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Nacho Sánchez Amor

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REPORT on the EU strategy on Central Asia
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Karsten Lucke

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Today, the Council and the Parliament reached a provisional political agreement on the regulation to improve the EU’s protection against market manipulation in the wholesale energy market (REMIT).

The Council and European Parliament negotiators reached a provisional agreement on a proposed EU law that would improve the investigation and prosecution of environmental crime offences.

Press briefing ahead of the upcoming Agriculture and Fisheries Council will take place on 17 November 2023 at 14.50.

The press briefing will take place on Wednesday 22 November 2023 at 16.00

Council and Parliament reach a provisional political agreement on short-term accommodation rental services.

On 14 November 2023, the EU and US met in Washington D.C. for a ministerial meeting on justice and home affairs.

Member states agree common position on a targeted amendment of the EU’s cybersecurity act.

Vice Admiral Ignacio Villanueva Serrano was appointed Operation Commander of EUNAVFOR ATALANTA, starting on 23 November 2023.

The meeting of the European Council will take place on 14 and 15 December 2023 in the Europa building in Brussels. It will be preceded by the Western Balkans Summit on 13 December.

Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the alignment of certain third countries with Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/2422 of 26 October 2023 amending Decision 2013/184/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Myanmar/Burma.