In the context of the efforts to help addressing the plight of the refugees in the wider Middle East region, the European Union (EU) announced that it will support Palestine refugees with fresh funding totalling € 30 million.
Days after the College of Commissioners presented a set of priority actions to be taken within the next six months to manage the refugee crisis, the European Commission has today made a first set of concrete proposals for €1.7 billion of EU funding in 2015 and 2016 in order to address the refugee crisis.
“The agreement on the withdrawal of tanks, artillery under 100mm and mortars up to 120mm in eastern Ukraine reached yesterday (29 September) within the Trilateral Contact Group’s working group on security is a positive step forward.
I am here today to reassure you that Europe is as committed to its values and objectives now, as it has ever been: Europe will stay the course, even though it is now confronting challenges unseen and unheard of since for decades.
Following the political guidance provided by the defence and foreign affairs ministers at the informal meetings on 3 and 5 September, EU Ambassadors within the Political and Security Committee agreed to start the first step of the second phase of the operation as of 7 October 2015 and approved the corresponding rules of engagement.
Speaking at an extraordinary meeting with the managing authorities of the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD), Commissioner Marianne Thyssen said…
Today’s celebration of Eid Al-Adha has been marked by a tragic crush in Mina, near Mecca, which resulted in the death and injury of several hundred Hajj pilgrims.
At informal, extraordinary meeting of Heads or States of Governments, held 23 September in Brussels, EU institutions and countries were asked to uphold, apply and implement existing rules including Dublin Regulation and Schengen acquis and work speedily on implementation of priority actions proposed by European Commission.
The College of Commissioners today set out a set of priority actions to be taken within the next six months, read the Communication by European Commission. President Jean-Claude Juncker said: “The decision to relocate 160,000 people from the most affected Member States is a historic first and a genuine, laudable expression of European solidarity.
The European Commission adopted today 40 infringement decisions against several Member States for failing to fully implement legislation making up the Common European Asylum System.
