Today, the European Union (EU) has proposed a €30 million emergency assistance package in a first step to support Moldova in tackling the severe energy crisis provoked by Gazprom. This package shall finance the purchase and transport of natural gas to the Transnistrian region, to help restore electricity and heating for the region’s more than 350.000 inhabitants until 10 February 2025.
“NATO remains absolutely the cornerstone of our security, all the more after the accession of Finland and Sweden, and it must be able to look not only towards its eastern flank, but also towards its southern flank. But, security means many other things. It means critical infrastructures, it means artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, it means raw materials, it means supply chains, it means a new and more effective foreign and cooperation
When the EU introduced temporary protection for displaced people from Ukraine in 2022, some Member States extended this protection to other categories of persons fleeing from Ukraine, e.g. people without any permanent permit of residence in Ukraine. In its judgment, the Court of Justice confirms that, in such a case, a Member State may withdraw the benefit of temporary protection from those persons. However, such persons may not be the
EU leaders discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, the EU in the world, resilience and preparedness, migration and foreign policy issues. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, attended the meeting.
Brussels, 19 December 2024 (OR. en) From: General Secretariat of the Council To: Delegations Subject:
How can we understand the notion of intelligence disclosure? This article discusses why states sometimes choose to disclose secret intelligence, and what the potential implications of intelligence disclosures may be. It suggests that while the abundance of intelligence disclosures in recent years may point to a more “transparent” role of secret services, disclosures have more importantly opened a debate about the boundaries between policy and intelligence practice.
In her address to MEPs, Georgia’s President Zourabichvili discussed the protest movement sweeping Georgia since the disputed parliamentary elections in October: “In some ways, we feel like we are back in 1921”, she said, “as scenes are repeating themselves.”
The EU Foreign Affairs Council exchanged views on the Russian aggression against Ukraine and Georgia. Ministers then discussed the situation in the Middle East, including Syria. Under current affairs, EU ministers touched on the latest developments in Belarus.
For the first time ever, the Council today decided to impose restrictive measures against 16 individuals and three entities responsible for Russia’s destabilising actions abroad. These measures are in response to Russia’s malicious actions and its lack of respect for a rules-based international order and international law.
The EU Foreign Affairs Council adopted its 15th package of economic and individual restrictive measures aiming at further limiting Russia’s ability to wage its illegal, unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine. The measures are designed to address the circumvention of EU sanctions by targeting Putin’s shadow fleet and weakening Russia’s military industries.
In his first major speech as NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte highlighted the critical need to ramp up defence spending and defence production in an increasingly turbulent security environment. At an event hosted by Carnegie Europe in Brussels, Mr Rutte called on Allies to “shift to a wartime mindset and turbo charge our defence production and defence spending”.
Joint Declaration by the Foreign Ministers of Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom
The serious and persistent nature of the hybrid threats at the Eastern EU border by Russia and Belarus pose new challenges for the EU. To guarantee security and territorial integrity in this exceptional context, Member States bordering Russia and Belarus must be able to act decisively.
Military and civilian experts from across NATO met at NATO Headquarters on Tuesday to ramp up further cooperation to counter threats to critical undersea infrastructure.
President García travelled to Ukraine with a delegation of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament to meet with key representatives of the government to express the Group’s full support to Ukraine.
Leading MEPs have published a joint statements on the escalating repressions by the Georgian authorities against the democratic opposition and excessive use of force against peaceful protesters.
At their meeting on Wednesday, NATO Allies considered a set of measures to counter Russia’s actions against NATO and individual Allies. Secretary General Mark Rutte said that “both Russia and China have tried to destabilise our countries and divide our societies with acts of sabotage, cyber-attacks, and energy blackmail”.
Ambassadors met in the NATO-Ukraine Council (NUC) to discuss the security situation in Ukraine following Russia’s launch of an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), last week.
Ukraine’s three operating nuclear power plants reduced their electricity generation following renewed attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure that further endangered nuclear safety during the military conflict, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said on 28 November 2024.
A session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) took place in Astana. President of Russia Putin, President of Belarus Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Japarov, President of Tajikistan Rahmon, and CSTO Secretary General Tasmagambetov attended the restricted format meeting. Here are some of their remarks regarding European security.
Addressing the 6th Atlantic Future Forum via video message, NATO Secretary General Rutte outlined NATO’s three main priorities in the run up to next Summit in The Hague: Strengthening collective defence, stepping up support to Ukraine, and deepening partnerships.
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