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From February to November 2022, there were 213 military attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. 40 percent of them are still destroyed.

Political scientist David Rowe has been looking into why so much of Europe wasn't ready for Putin — and the consequences for the Western allies of not spilling their own blood in Ukraine.

On Tuesday, MEPs will discuss the Kyiv Security Compact with Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak and former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Security and Defence

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On Tuesday, MEPs will discuss the Kyiv Security Compact with Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak and former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Security and Defence

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The Subcommittee on Security and Defence and the Committee on Foreign Affairs will exchange views with the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak and the former Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen on the Kyiv Security Compact on 31 January. The discussion will also focus on Ukraine military capability needs to stop Russia's war of aggression including support from allies and partners in the short and medium term.
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MEPs are expected to present their migration and asylum priorities on Wednesday (1 February), before EU leaders will focus on the issue at the 9-10 February special European Council.

Plans by the European Commission to create new European Union funding for green industries are facing mounting opposition in the 27-nation bloc, as seven EU countries openly rejected the idea in a letter to the EU executive.

Russia has twisted comments by Germany's foreign minister about the war in Ukraine for propaganda purposes, a German foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday (27 January), stressing Berlin's position that NATO must not become party to the conflict.

A Spanish man arrested over letter bombs sent to institutions including the prime minister's office and the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid was trying to pressure Spain to drop its support for Ukraine, a magistrate said on 27 January.

For the many critics of the European Parliament, the Qatargate scandal is a monument to a corrupt talking shop. It’s a crude and inaccurate slur. Forty years of EU integration and reform have created a European Parliament far more powerful...

Artists' organisations are preparing a push for regulatory changes over concerns that EU law fails to protect the creative industries from fast-developing generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT. 

The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday (27 January) he hoped South Africa would use its good relations with Russia to convince it end the conflict in Ukraine.

The EU executive delivered a presentation, obtained by EURACTIV, to national authorities on the designation of very large online platforms, the governance architecture and an information-sharing system.

Hungary will veto any European Union sanctions against Russia affecting nuclear energy, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told state radio on Friday (27 January).

Pressure is mounting for EU states to ease multiple-entry visas for human rights defenders from Belarus and Russia. But with EU states in charge of issuing visas, the possibilities for a coordinated EU approach appears limited.

Japan and the Netherlands are set to agree to join the United States in restricting exports of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China.

On 14 May, Turks will decide whether or not to approve – in final terms – Erdoğan’s drive toward an extremely centralised system of government, or, to put it more simply, one-man rule, writes Yavuz Baydar.

Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders said the EU executive's goal is to include the financial sector under the EU rules on corporate accountability after it was carved out from mandatory due diligence by member states in their common negotiating position.

Officials continue to inch towards an agreement on the status of Gibraltar, the rocky enclave at the southernmost tip of Spain, following the latest round of talks in London between officials from the UK, Gibraltar, Spain and the European Commission on Thursday and Friday (26,27 January).

Last June, a Latvian socialist MEP went to Azerbaijan and sang its praises — but the EU Parliament committee he claimed to represent had no idea he was there.