After COREPER approved the final compromise text yesterday, AFET Committee Press and EU Budget adopted the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans today.

Special thanks to the entire AFET EPP team, especially to shadow rapporteur Željana Zovko, for their hard work.

'EU-Indonesia relations need a new dynamic' - an opinion article by David McAllister MEP & Daniel Caspary MEP in today's The Jakarta Post
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Read here 👇🏿
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Good exchange with members of the European Economic and Social Committee section for external relations today. We discussed the achievements and future challenges of the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy.

The Foreign Minister met with Members of the European Parliament in Brussels today.

They discussed:

-deepening EU-NZ cooperation, including in the Indo-Pacific;

-Ukraine; &

-upcoming European elections

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@DavidMcAllister
Željana Zovko
Reinhard Bütikofer
Dita Charanzová
Ulrike Müller

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EESC External Relations Meeting
🌐Achievements & challenges of 🇪🇺 Common Foreign & Security Policy
🇬🇧EU-UK #Youth Engagement
💹New growth plan & Reform & Growth Facility for the Western Balkans
ℹ️ Safeguarding Democracy Against Disinformation

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Met with a delegation of European Parliament Committee Chairmen led by the Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairmen, Chair of the Committee on International Trade Bernd Lange and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs davidmcallister.

🆕 MEPs visiting Kyiv call for more EU support for Ukraine to drive back Russia

davidmcallister Bernd Lange

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I welcome to Kyiv a powerful delegation of European Parliament Committees’ Heads led by Bernd Lange and davidmcallister.

We had a substantive meeting, raised a number of important issues, first of all, European integration 🇺🇦.

We discussed the process of adapting Ukrainian…

🆕 A delegation of MEPs, led by davidmcallister and Bernd Lange, have arrived in Kyiv to discuss the need for continued EU 🇪🇺 support for Ukraine 🇺🇦 with high-level politicians and civil society representatives.

Today EED Executive Director Jerzy Pomianowski presented the EED 2023 Annual Report at the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (@EP_ForeignAff). The report provides an overview of EED's democracy support work in 2023 and in the past ten years: bit.ly/3Vr2pXU

Fruitful exchange with Mihai Popșoi in Brussels today! 🇲🇩🇪🇺

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Ahead of the European Council, during which EU leaders will debate the future of EU enlargement, Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs will discuss enlargement with ministers, vice-ministers and secretaries of state of EU member states.

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🆕 'The European Parliament will not observe the 2024 Russian 🇷🇺 presidential election'.

Full statement by davidmcallister and Tomas Tobé below.

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'El Parlamento Europeo no observará este proceso electoral y, por consiguiente, no comentará ni el proceso ni los resultados que se anuncien posteriormente', dijeron en un comunicado los eurodiputados David McAllister y Tomas Tobé.

The EU Council, European Parliament & European Commission launched today the negotiations to establish a Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans.

It will support the EU's Western Balkan partners in undertaking a comprehensive set of socio-economic and fundamentals reforms.

🔴 Jetzt live aus dem KAH in Berlin: Vorstellung des gemeinsamen Europawahlprogramms von CDU und CSU mit Ursula von der Leyen, Friedrich Merz, Markus Söder und Manfred Weber. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…