Ahead of a groundbreaking inaugural September 22 meeting on the margins of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), the Department of State announced that Austria, Estonia, Lithuania, and the Netherlands have endorsed the Joint Statement on Efforts to Counter the Proliferation and Misuse of Commercial Spyware.
The Council today adopted a decision authorising the Commission to open negotiations, on behalf of the EU, with the United States on a Critical Minerals Agreement (CMA) and the related negotiating directives. This agreement seeks to strengthen critical minerals supply chains and mitigate some of the negative repercussions of the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on EU industry.
“Allies all agreed to lift the requirements for Membership Action Plan for Ukraine and to create a path to NATO membership while Ukraine continues to make progress on necessary reforms. But we’re not waiting for that process to be finished to make the long-term commitments that we’re making to Ukraine’s security” – Joe Biden on the G7 Declaration of support for Ukraine.
Today, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. The decision concludes that the United States ensures an adequate level of protection – comparable to that of the European Union – for personal data transferred from the EU to US companies under the new framework. On the basis of the new adequacy decision, personal data can flow safely from the EU to US companies participating
One question at the briefing: As Secretary Blinken said, this has exposed “cracks in Putin’s power.” How concerned are you that Putin could now be more desperate, more unpredictable, to the point that he could take more extreme measures to try and maintain his grip on power?
Under Secretary Nuland and Secretary General Sannino reaffirmed the intent of the U.S. Department of State and the European External Action Service to continue their close coordination on China and the Indo-Pacific and hold the next rounds of the Dialogue on China and High-Level Consultations on the Indo-Pacific in Washington, D.C. before the end of 2023.
“First of all, what we’ve seen is extraordinary, and I think you see cracks emerge that weren’t there before – first, in having Prigozhin raise front and center, questioning the very premises of the Russian aggression against Ukraine to begin with – the argument that somehow Ukraine or NATO posed a threat to Russia – and a direct challenge to Putin himself.”
The United States and the European Union express strong concern with the rise of violent extremism, based on the rejection of democratic values and motivated by hate, racism, xenophobia and/or related intolerance. They stressed their willingness to work jointly to identify and take effective action in situations in which violent extremist groups cooperate transnationally for the purpose of committing criminal offenses, as well as to address the challenges arising from
On 21 June, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Policy and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and Executive Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans, met in Brussels to discuss the impacts of climate change on peace and security.
The United States believes that it is far more urgent and practical to deal with the issue of new fissile material production first.
“Where Putin aimed to project strength, he’s revealed weakness. Where he sought to divide, he’s united. What he tried to prevent, he’s precipitated. That outcome is no accident. It’s the direct result of the courage and solidarity of the Ukrainian people and the deliberate, decisive, swift action that we and our partners have taken to support Ukraine.”
The United States is designating seven leading members of a Russian intelligence-linked group and one entity for their role in Russia’s malign influence campaigns and destabilization operations in Moldova. These actors are a part of Russia’s global information operations that have also targeted the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and countries in the Balkans.
The programme included a site visit to the Hydrogen Breakthrough Ironmaking Technology plant outside of Luleå, a project aimed at revolutionising the iron and steel industries by producing fossil-free steel.
Both countries confirm their common ambition to cooperate in key areas of 6G research and development and to increase interaction between Finnish and US actors.
The U.S. economy has proven resilient in the face of the significant tightening of both fiscal and monetary policy that took place in 2022. Consumer demand has held up particularly well, boosted initially by a drawdown of pent-up savings and, more recently, by solid growth in real disposable incomes. Read the IMF Staff Concluding Statement of the 2023 Article IV Mission.
Finnish Foreign Minister Haavisto and US Secretary of State Blinken will discuss foreign and security policy questions, Russia’s war against Ukraine, and other relevant matters.
Brussels, 25 May 2023 Trade relations with the United States The Foreign Affairs Council, in
Brussels, 23 May 2023 The Foreign Affairs Council, in its Trade configuration, will discuss the
Brussels, 11 May 2023 The proposed EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework is an improvement, but not
Report summarizing the Federal Reserve Board’s framework for assessing the resilience of the U.S. financial
Ramstein, 21 April 2023 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg participated in a meeting of the
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