❗ NOW available – Forward look of EU Council
meetings until 28 April #FAC
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Statement by Josep Borrell Fontelles on behalf of the EU on Sudan, one year into the conflict
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LIVE FROM VIENNA:

Watch the doorstep with Chancellor Karl Nehammer ahead of our consultations on the #StrategicAgenda with leaders of 🇩🇰🇱🇻🇲🇹🇨🇾🇦🇹🇸🇰🇸🇮 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

7 October attacks in Israel: EU Council lists 3⃣ entities (Al-Quds Brigades, Nukhba Force & Qassam Brigades) within the 🇪🇺 Global #HumanRights Sanctions Regime over involvement in in the brutal and indiscriminate terrorist attacks.

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EU-Central America: EU Council greenlights association agreement with 🇨🇷🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇳🇮🇵🇦 through which parties commit to a long term relation in all policy areas

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The EU Council approved conclusions on the mid-term evaluation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

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The #ECOFIN Council has ended.

➡️Press conference will start soon with:
Minister Vincent Van Peteghem 🇧🇪
Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis 🇪🇺
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Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024

APPROVED: EU Council adopts Euro 7

#COMPET Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024

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🇪🇺 Council decision: Visa fees for The Gambia back to normal level

Cooperation on readmissions has improved substantially

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The EU Council adopted a macro-financial assistance operation of €1 billion of urgent short-term macro-financial assistance to Egypt to help stabilise its economy. 🇪🇬 🇪🇺

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Tourist bus drivers: @EU_Council adopts new law to improve their working conditions

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🇪🇺 Council adopts single permit directive:

➡️ legal migration to the EU labour market
➡️updated rules for 3rd country nationals to apply for a work/residence permit
➡️ simplified & quicker procedures

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Adopted❗️

The 🇪🇺 Council gave its green light to EU-wide minimum rules about the violation and circumvention of EU sanctions

Helping to bypass a travel ban or trading in sanctioned goods will be a criminal offence in all EU countries

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‼️ ADOPTED: EU Council gives final green light for
📌the revised directive on industrial emissions
📌the regulation on a new industrial emissions portal
The new rules will bring
⬇️ less industrial emissions
⬆️ more access to environmental data
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Adopted❗️ 🇪🇺 Council gives green light to new EU law that boosts member states’ capacities to fight organised crime

➡️minimum rules on the tracing, identification, freezing, confiscation and management of criminal property

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#FitFor55 : EU Council greenlights revised EU rules on improving energy performance of buildings.

The revised directive will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy poverty 🌍🏘️🌲

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The EU will increase its shares in the capital of the EBRD.

This will ensure the Bank's continued support for resilience and reconstruction in Ukraine and all other countries of operation. 🇺🇦🇪🇺 #ECOFIN

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Remarks by Paschal Donohoe after the #Eurogroup meeting of 11 April 2024 focussing on inflation and exchange rates, the competitiveness of the euro area and the digital euro.

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❗ NOW available: background brief ahead of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 12 April 2024 #ECOFIN

❗ 11 April – Eurogroup meeting #Eurogroup
❗ 12 April – Economic and Financial Affairs Council #ECOFIN

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