France's Balkan policy is scandalous! The country is blocking visa liberalization for Kosovo, commencement of EU accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania, and now Paris is also rejecting Kosovo's application for membership in the Council of Europe.
5/12 Kosovo’s government says it will apply for membership in the European rights watchdog the Council of Europe, seizing an opportunity after Russia quit the body.”
Havasi added: Orbán rejected both requests because they are contrary to Hungary’s interests. Hungary intends to stay out of this war, and that is the reason why it won’t allow weapons shipments through its territory, as well as why we are not going to send weapons to Ukraine.
2/21 Ambassadors of EU member states have decided to extend sanctions in the form of asset freezing and an entry ban〜at aWednesday meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER)/ EU onDecember21 formally approved an earlier decision to extend for another6months economic sanctio
11/28 “Chair of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE, President of the Committee for Culture and Media Volodymyr Ariev says the majority of PACE members believe that the Russian delegation should return to the Assembly only after Moscow ceases aggression against Ukraine.”
10/13 “Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto has recently announced his intention to revise the Association Agreement and block further rapprochement of Ukraine with the EU due to the recently adopted Ukrainian law on education.”
11.7 Jozwiak believes at the moment there will only "be tech talks between EP and (EU) Council" on suspension mechanism this week. "No deal" will be reached during these talks, the RFE/RL correspondent wrote.
12.8 マーティン・シュルツ The European Parliament President hopes that there will be no more delays on the part of the EU Council in the issue of granting a visa-free regime for Ukraine and Georgia, according to his statement via Twitter.
12.8 EU Ambassadors have confirmed the agreement between the EU Council and the European Parliament (EP) about the "visa waiver suspension mechanism" between the EU and third countries./ After that, the decision must be voted by the European Parliament and the EU Council.
11.24 According to him, the document must be presented at the EU summit in Brussels on December 15-16 &further adopted by the EU Council. At the same time, this document will not be legally binding for Ukraine as it will not have been ratified by all 28 EU Member States unlike the AA.
10.27 The European Parliament and the EU Council cannot agree on a visa waiver suspension mechanism, which is called a prerequisite for EU-Ukraine visa liberalization, according to Rikard Jozwiak, a Brussels-based reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
The parties coordinated positions on the priority tasks in the Ukraine-EU interaction on the eve of the EC's session onOctober20-21. Poroshenko informed the PM on the security situation in Donbas and urged Sweden & other EU countries to officially recognize the fact of Russian aggression after Norwa