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Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the alignment of certain third countries with Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/1035 of 25 May 2023 amending Decision 2013/255/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Syria.

Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on Council implementing Decision (CFSP) 2023/987 of 22 May 2023 implementing Decision 2011/235/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran.

Remarks by Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe after the Eurogroup meeting of 15 June 2023 in Luxembourg.

European Council President Charles MicheI delivered a video message at Prespa Forum Dialogue taking place in Struga, North Macedonia

The President of the Eurogroup issued a statement on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the first Eurogroup meeting.

The Council agreed today on the Council’s negotiating mandate for a new EU law on liability for defective products.

President Michel received the letters of credentials from four new ambassadors to the European Union.

The Council agreed its mandate on the listing act, a legislative package which will make EU public capital markets more attractive for EU companies and facilitate their access to capital.

The Council has agreed its position on a targeted revision of the financial regulation which lays down the rules applicable to the EU budget.

Serbians paraded life-size figures of leading government figures in prison jumpsuits on Saturday (17 June) during a seventh week of protests since two mass shootings triggered nationwide protests.

Vladimir Putin on 17 June gave African leaders seeking to mediate in the war in Ukraine a list of reasons why he believed many of their proposals were misguided, pouring cold water on a plan already largely dismissed by Kyiv.

Putin said on 16 June that his deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, something he confirmed for the first time had already happened, was a reminder to the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.

EU finance ministers met to discuss the proposed update of the bloc's spending rules but failed to achieve any progress, with France and Germany still at odds over the reforms after the meeting.

Temperatures in Europe are heating up, and so is a contention that has now spread from Spain to Germany. At the heart of the squabble is a fruit you might be snacking on as you enjoy the sun: strawberries.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday (16 June) announced €500 million in public investment into the French aviation industry to help the EU meet its aviation decarbonisation targets for 2030 and 2050.

French economy minister Bruno Le Maire warned that uniformly and automatically applied numerical targets embedded in the current fiscal rules had led to recessions in the past and should not be included in the EU's reform of the rules.

A delegation of African leaders began a peace mission in Kyiv on Friday (16 June), undeterred by what Ukraine said was a volley of Russian missiles intended to greet them in the capital.

This week’s United Nations climate talks in Bonn confirmed a familiar pattern. Glacial progress on climate finance meant that little headway was made on adaptation and loss and damage.  The perception will persist among the leaders of the Global South...

As an outcome of the 4th Railway Package, the authorisation process for rail vehicles is harmonized across Europe, accessible, transparent, and predictable. An institutional locomotive that takes us every day closer to a railway system without frontiers. Josef Doppelbauer is...

Top executives of the American chipmaker Intel and the Polish government announced a €4.2 billion investment in the Lower Silesian region on Friday (16 June) following last year’s launch of a massive investment plan spanning Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Italy and...