🔴📹 Follow LIVE 👉 Press conference with 🇨🇾 Minister following today’s #AGRIFISH Council link.europa.eu/rdhTw3

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Europe is ramping up its defence and decided on another batch of SAFE funding. The Commission submitted a proposal to the Council to approve financial assistance for Estonia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Finland. 🔗 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

✅ @ec.europa.eu has approved the Latvian Defence Investment Plan. It is expected that soon Latvia will be able to receive a €3.5 billion loan on favourable terms from a SAFE instrument, which will allow significantly strengthening the country's defence capabilities. Security is a priority of the European Union.

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The European Commission positively assessed Poland's defense investment plans. Poland will be the largest beneficiary of the SAFE program – over €43 billion. The projects presented by the government, the largest in the entire EU, were met with the Commission's approval. 🇵🇱🇪🇺

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Strong start to 🇨🇾 Presidency at #AGRIFISH Situation in EU agricultural markets call for action! I have decided to launch a health check of key markets, a process that will look into their challenges but also opportunities. This will be done in dialogue with the stakeholders.

Long live India. Long live the friendship between Europe and India. 🇪🇺🇮🇳

There is no break on #SAFE! 🚀 8 more national investment plans approved just now. ~€75B in #EUDefence funding, moving us closer to collective strength. ⏩ What’s next: Council decisions for fast disbursement. And we continue working on the remaing plans.

There are two ways to approach crises: hiding the truth, or communicating and facing it. @oscarpuente.bsky.social is responding with transparency, constant information, and combating rumors. We will know the truth to the last detail, out of respect and commitment to the victims.

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Thank you for hosting us on Republic Day, President Murmu. स्नेहपूर्ण स्वागत के लिए आपका हार्दिक धन्यवाद। Europe and India are the world’s largest democracies, committed to working together to shape a new global order. This is why we are here to take our partnership to new heights.

Creating fake, sexual images of women and children is a cruel and unacceptable form of abuse. We will not accept that.

Kurdish women and men in Syria are subjected to massive violence. For weeks the situation has been escalating: killings, abductions, displacement, torture, rape, humiliation. The violence and targeted humiliations against female fighters are especially brutal. (1/2)

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The display of the flags of the EU, the EU Military Staff, and our maritime missions ATALANTA and ASPIDES at India’s Republic Day is a powerful symbol of our deepening security cooperation. It will culminate tomorrow in the signature of our Security and Defence Partnership.

There is strong momentum for closer cooperation with India, and we are seizing it. It is a pleasure to be in New Delhi today and an honour to attend the Republic Day celebration. (1/2)