The European Union has followed closely the presidential elections of 11 October 2015 in the Republic of Belarus, including the pre-electoral phase and the campaigning period. It is important that the election day was held in a peaceful environment.
The unprecedented migratory and refugee crisis that the EU is now facing has witnessed a sharp increase of mixed migratory flows along the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Balkans, in parallel with a constant flow along the Central Mediterranean route.
The conflict in Syria and the suffering of the Syrian people is showing no sign of abating. The scale of the tragedy, having killed 250,000 men, women and children, displaced 7.6 million inside the country and sent over 4 million fleeing into neighbouring and other countries, is now the world’s largest humanitarian disaster, with no parallel in recent history.
EU and UNDP have donated specialised ballistic examination equipment worth more than EUR 50,000 to National Criminal-technical Centre of Serbian Criminal Police Department. The donation was delivered in the presence of Head of EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport and Permanent Representative of UNDP Irena Vojačkova-Sollorano.
Head of EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport said that EU did not pressure Serbia, and that, when it comes to opening of negotiations, it insisted on fulfilling commitments under Brussels Agreement and normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations.
Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, and Commissioner Marianne Thyssen, in charge of Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, will today announce an EU contribution for the G7’s ‘Vision Zero Fund’.
The Commission has today launched a new initiative that will help regions improve the impact of their investments in research and development by building synergies between EU funding for regional policy and for research.
Joint Declaration by the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, on the European and World Day against the Death Penalty, 10 October 2015
Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of European Commission, and Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, issued the following statement today…
The abolition of the death penalty worldwide is one of the flagship objectives of the EU’s human rights policy. It features as one of the top priorities in the recently adopted Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (2015-2019).
