Senior legal experts of the European Commission, the European External Action Service, the Council of Europe, Ukraine and 37 States laid down the legal foundations for the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. The participants also set out the key elements of the “Schuman draft Statute”, the core legal […]
Commission disburses first €3 billion to Ukraine of its part of the G7 loan
The European Commission has disbursed today the first €3 billion tranche of its exceptional Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) loan for Ukraine, which will be repaid with proceeds from immobilised Russian State assets in the EU. This loan, amounting up to €18.1 billion, represents the EU’s contribution to the G7-led Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) loans initiative, which […]
Disinformation: 7 myths about the Russia-Ukraine conflict
EUvsDisinfo, the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force, established in 2015 to better forecast, address, and respond to the Russian Federation’s ongoing disinformation campaigns affecting the European Union, its Member States, and countries in the shared neighbourhood, overviews the most prevalent and dangerous myths — and often outright lies — […]
The EU on the current geopolitical chessboard
In view of the serious international situation and the escalation of conflicts in different areas of Europe, the EU Foreign Affairs Ministers have held a series of meetings since May 18 in order to address the various current situations and reach consensus agreements: Main results EU Foreign Ministers exchanged views on the recent serious escalation […]