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The European Commission has today signed an agreement worth €35 million with the BGK, Polish Development Bank, to set up an innovative arrangement to support EU Member States in the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to the Eastern Partnership countries.

Dear Madam President Daszyńska-Muzyczka, Minister Rau, thank very much for joining us today, here in the Berlaymont. I think that we have some very good news - we are launching an initiative that we have been working on together

Today, the Commission adopted three new equivalence decisions certifying that COVID-19 certificates issued by Cabo Verde, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are equivalent to the EU Digital COVID Certificate.

The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached yesterday evening by the European Parliament and the Council to make 2022 the European Year of Youth.

Today, the European Commission and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy launch the Global Gateway, the new European Strategy to boost smart, clean and secure links in digital, energy and transport and strengthen health, education and research systems across the world.

The Commission is today putting forward a set of temporary asylum and return measures to assist Latvia, Lithuania and Poland in addressing the emergency situation at the EU's external border with Belarus.

Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, and Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, will take part in the EU – Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs tomorrow and on Friday in Brdo, Slovenia.

Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, will be in Jordan on Tuesday, 30 November, and Wednesday, 1st December...

The Sixth Regional Forum of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) gathered Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Euro-Mediterranean region on 29 November 2021 in Barcelona under the Co-Presidency of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the European Union to take stock of progress achieved and to guide

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell, chaired today the third EU-Southern Neighbourhood Ministerial Meeting in Barcelona

On Monday 29 November, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President Josep Borrell will co-chair the 6th Regional Forum of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) together with Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Safadi.

The EU public sector expertise is in higher demand than ever before. This was the key message from the TAIEX & Twinning Institution Building Days on 16-18 November 2021...

Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November, the European Commission and the High Representative/Vice President, Josep Borrell, issued the following statement...

Ahead of World Children's Day on 20 November, the European Commission and the High Representative made the following statement: “Today, the world is home to the largest generation of young people in history.

On Monday evening, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, on a proposal from the European Commission, have reached an informal political agreement on the EU budget for 2022, the second under the 2021-2027 EU multiannual financial framework...

Today, Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission; Olivér Várhelyi, Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement and Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General, signed a Joint Declaration

Today, Vice-President for Promoting our European Way of Life, Margaritis Schinas, is in Beirut, Lebanon.

On Monday, 15 November, Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, will be in Egypt to participate in a high-level migration dialogue.

Belarus must stop putting people's lives at risk. The instrumentalisation of migrants for political purposes by Belarus is unacceptable.