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The Council today approved conclusions on enlargement and stabilisation and association process. The conclusions assess the situation in each of the EU candidates and partners, set out guidelines on reform priorities, and reaffirm the Council’s commitment to the EU’s enlargement policy.

The EU and African partners have launched today two Team Europe Initiatives (TEI) focused on the Atlantic/Western Mediterranean and the Central Mediterranean migratory routes to ensure joint efforts by Member States and the EU addressing the migration challenges that the EU and its partners of North

The European Commission has adopted today a €220 million package to improve border control at Türkiye's Eastern border, bringing to €1.235 billion the total EU assistance adopted in 2022 to continue support to refugees in Türkiye -basic needs, assistance for the most vulnerable and socio-economic

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen convened the first meeting of the Global Gateway Board today. The meeting highlighted the progress that has been made in the first year of implementation of Global Gateway with the target of mobilising €300 billion of investments by 2027

Today, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, High Representative/Vice President Josep Borrell, Commissioners Olivér Várhelyi and Jutta Urpilainen, as well as Foreign Affairs Ministers of the EU Member States participated in the first Global Gateway Board meeting.

Today, the European Commission, Members of the European Parliament, Board Members and Observers from 21 EU Member States, United Kingdom, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Türkiye gathered in Brussels for the joint meeting of the 12th Trust Fund Board and the 14th Operational Board

At a conference with key partners yesterday, the Commission and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) defined infrastructure needs and funding resources to step up transport connectivity between the EU, Ukraine and Moldova as part of the Solidarity Lanes initiative.

10 December is Human Rights Day which marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. This day serves as an opportunity to recall that human rights are universal, indivisible, inalienable, interdependent and interrelated.

The European Commission has adopted a new assistance programme worth €25 million to further support the people of Belarus, following the brutal response of the regime to the protests against the fraudulent elections of August 2020.