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Press briefing ahead of Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council will take place on Friday 6 October 2023 at 17.30.

The Council and Parliament negotiators today reached a provisional political agreement on phasing down substances that cause global warming and deplete the ozone layer.

The Council concluded its negotiating position on a regulation on crisis situations and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum.

Invitation letter by President Charles Michel to the members of the European Council ahead of their informal meeting on 6 October 2023.

Press briefing ahead of the meeting of the European Political Community and the Informal meeting of EU heads of state or government, Granada 5-6 October 2023, will take place on 3 October at 14.00

Weekly schedule of President Charles Michel, 2 - 8 October 2023

Balkan states face challenges in their digital transformation, including a lack of digitally skilled labour, infrastructure gaps, and digital government services, according to stakeholders who took part in the two-day Western Balkan Digital Summit on 4 and 5 October in...

AMENDMENTS 1 - 57 - Draft opinion Transparency and accountability of non-governmental organisations funded from the EU budget
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Deirdre Clune

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The United States on Thursday (5 October) shot down an armed Turkish drone that was operating near its troops in Syria, the Pentagon said, the first time Washington has brought down an aircraft of NATO ally Turkey.

The Italian government is planning for a possible mass evacuation of tens of thousands of people who live around the Campi Flegrei super volcano near Naples, officials said on Thursday (5 October).

Slovaks voted last Saturday on 30 September, but criticism abounded over the extensive abuse of political disinformation across online platforms – just as the Digital Services Act (DSA), the legislation tackling illegal content online, entered into force across the EU...

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about Slovakia's president must explain why she intervened in Ukraine's military aid, Weber's CSU is likely to suffer a blow to EU influence in Germany's upcoming regional elections and more.

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani refused to meet her Serbian counterpart in Spain until the West, including the European Union, takes measures against Belgrade following the terrorist attack in the north of Kosovo on 24 September. Osmani is in Granada with...

Romania must take immediate action to improve the living conditions and treatment of patients in psychiatric institutions and residential care centres the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) said...

Bulgaria’s pro-European government will likely survive a no-confidence vote scheduled for 13 October tabled by the pro-Russian radical party Vazrazhdan and the populist ITN over plans to cut coal-fired power plants. Former long-serving prime minister Boyko Borissov said his GERB...

President Zuzana Čaputová moved to prevent the technocratic interim government from sending a shipment of weapons to Ukraine at a time when Robert Fico, who promised not to send “one more bullet”, is trying to form a government. Čaputová’s strict...

Czechia is ready to deepen its collaboration with the United Kingdom in nuclear energy, particularly for developing small modular reactors, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said after meeting his British counterpart Rishi Sunak in Granada. “We discussed specific projects, especially...

Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced their joint position on the EU’s proposed migration and asylum reform, reiterating their strong opposition to the proposed relocation scheme ahead of the upcoming informal summit of bloc leaders in...

Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström will soon hold new meetings in Saudi Arabia, Oman and Algeria to rebuild trust following this year’s multiple Quran burnings, Billström said on Thursday. While talks between Swedish representatives and the Organisation of the Islamic...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accepted an invitation from his Portuguese counterpart Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to visit the country, and teams are “still working on the date”, the Portuguese presidency said on Thursday. “The Ukrainian president has accepted Marcelo...