European Parliament President Roberta Metsola hosted a meeting with Speakers of the European Union’s National Parliaments and the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk. During the meeting, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola announced that a structure that brings together the key European Parliament interlocutors with their counterparts from the Rada has been […]
Russia: Statement by High Representative Josep Borrell on media censorship and crackdown on peaceful anti-war protests
Media censorship imposed by Russian authorities as well as the crackdown on peaceful, anti-war protests in view of the unprovoked and unjustified military invasion of Ukraine is escalating in Russia. Ukraine: Sanctions on Kremlin-backed outlets Russia Today and Sputnik Yesterday, two more of Russia’s most prominent media outlets, Moscow’s Echo and TV Rain, were banned, […]
Statement by President von der Leyen at the joint press conference with Slovak Prime Minister Heger
Thank you very much Prime Minister, dear Eduard, I am here really to thank you and to thank the Slovak people for their outstanding effort to support and welcome the people that are fleeing the war in Ukraine. And I think, in this very dark hour, that it is wonderful to see the unity and […]
Opera empowering marginalized people
Since its birth in the 16th century, opera has entertained both the wealthy nobility and the general public. The EU-funded TRACTION project is now using this art form to reach out to marginalised groups such as migrants, the rural poor and young offenders. Armed with two innovative tools, an EU-funded project is using opera to […]
HORIZON EUROPE: Centres of Excellence for supporting supercomputing applications for Science and Innovation
Expected Outcome Advancing the transition towards exascale capabilities by developing or scaling up existing parallel codes, resulting into effective applications to solve scientific, industrial or societal challenges and addressing the needs of the user communities. Scope The Centres of Excellence (CoE) address scientific and industrial applications and user communities that run world leading codes or […]
Master of Science Project “Impact of heatwaves on microbial communities” in Germany
Background Microbial communities in summer are more balanced and kept in check by grazers compared to spring bloom microbial communities. Blooms, if they occur, are rather rare and short lived. How this balance is changing with progressing climate change, and especially with heatwaves which are gaining in intensity and frequency is not yet know. To […]
G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Statement of 04.03.2022
We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union reiterate our profound condemnation of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustifiable war of choice against Ukraine, enabled by the Belarussian government. Russia must immediately stop its ongoing assault against […]
Extraordinary NATO Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting: Remarks by High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell upon arrival
Check against delivery! I was here two weeks ago for the [NATO Defence] Ministerial meeting. The world has changed a lot since then. We are now witnessing a fully-fledged war on our borders. A war unleashed by President Putin against Ukraine, a completely unjustified war that is creating a lot of civilian casualties, with the use […]
Statement by President von der Leyen at the joint press conference with Romanian President Iohannis
Thank you very much Mr President, And allow me, first of all, to convey my condolences to the families of the officers that died in the helicopter crash last night, a very tragic accident. Mr President, dear Klaus, I am here today to thank you and the warm-hearted Romanian people for welcoming with open arms […]