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📢 Net profits from frozen Russian assets will be used to support Ukraine's self-defence and reconstruction.
Revenues accumulating due to EU sanctions will be given to Ukraine through the European Peace Facility and other EU programmes.
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[2024-05-21 11:43 UTC]

❌Foreign interference is a threat to our democracies.
To protect electoral processes, the Council calls for:
🔹more action to monitor information manipulation
🔹fostering citizens’ digital and media literacy
🔹increased cybersecurity cooperation
More👉
https://europa.eu/!Mkv3N3

[2024-05-21 10:31 UTC]

👍 Adopted today: reform of the electricity market design
What does it mean for consumers and businesses?
Find out 👇

[2024-05-21 09:30 UTC]

The EU’s AI act is the first legislation in the world on
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. Uses of AI will be:
✅ secure
✅ trustworthy
✅ ethical
🇪🇺Telecoms ministers adopted the
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today.
Read more 🔗
https://europa.eu/!8jHHcK

[2024-05-21 09:19 UTC]

Currently 95% of the gas used in the EU is fossil gas. By 2050, renewable and low-carbon gases will make up over 60% of the EU's gas consumption.
How will we get there?
Today the Council adopted the hydrogen and gas package 👇
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[2024-05-21 08:46 UTC]

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| Today, 🇪🇺ministers for telecommunications will discuss:
✅implementation of EU rules in the digital field
✅promotion of digital skills
They will also approve conclusions on the future of the EU’s digital policy and of cybersecurity.
Agenda highlights ⬇️

[2024-05-21 06:00 UTC]

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is on tomorrow. On the agenda:
📌June
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preparation
📌Article 7 procedure on 🇵🇱
📌Annual rule of law dialogue: 🇨🇾 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇱🇺
More info ➡️
https://europa.eu/!CvjXjj

[2024-05-20 16:30 UTC]

When you surf online, your privacy is respected.
When you shop, your goods are guaranteed for 2 years.
When your travel, you have strong passenger rights.
When you go outdoors, nature around you is protected.
Find out what it means to live in the EU →
https://europa.eu/!3Cbr9j

[2024-05-20 08:31 UTC]

Only 18% of EU citizens have a high level of financial literacy.
To support informed financial decision-making & encourage investment on European markets, the Council has approved new conclusions on
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.
Watch the video to find out why it's so important 🎥

[2024-05-18 07:30 UTC]

The EU has banned the broadcasting activities of 4 media outlets (Voice of Europe, RIA Novosti, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta) which:
🚫 spread and support Russian propaganda
🚫 have been used to manipulate information about the military aggression against Ukraine
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[2024-05-17 12:42 UTC]

🇪🇺🌈 Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia have no place in the EU or anywhere in the world.
Love is love.
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[2024-05-17 07:55 UTC]

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day
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! 💡
Meet our trainee Selma as she shares her experience working at the Council with a visual impairment.
📹 Watch the video to discover more about the tools and technologies that empower her in her everyday work.

[2024-05-16 08:30 UTC]

RT by @EUCouncil: I am shocked at the news of the attack on Slovakian PM Fico after a meeting of the Slovak Cabinet in Handlova.

Nothing can ever justify violence or such attacks.

My thoughts are with the Prime Minister and his family.

[2024-05-15 13:54 UTC]

The EU is working on updating existing rules on the safety of toys.
The objectives:
🛡️ increasing protection against harmful chemicals
📉 reducing the number of unsafe toys sold in the EU, especially online
The Council adopted its position today →
https://europa.eu/!PTMtDG

[2024-05-15 10:00 UTC]

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| 🇪🇺 EU Education, Youth, Culture and Sport ministers met in Brussels.
They discussed:
📌 the role of online influencers
📌opportunities to learn abroad
📌 inclusive societies for young people
📌self-organised sport
More info:

[2024-05-14 16:38 UTC]

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| Ministers approved new rules for simpler and faster withholding tax procedures and adopted conclusions on financial literacy.
They also discussed:
🔹VAT in the digital age
🔹The Recovery and Resilience Facility
🔹Russia’s aggression against
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Click for more👇

[2024-05-14 15:27 UTC]

The Council has greenlighted new rules on safer and faster procedures to obtain double taxation relief and refunds.
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The new rules will help:
🌍 boost cross-border investment
🛡️ fight tax abuse
Find out more ➡
https://europa.eu/!DwFn3r

[2024-05-14 13:49 UTC]

Today the Council adopts the
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&
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pact:
☑️easing the burden on EU countries where most migrants arrive
☑️offering a fairer and more efficient framework for registering and processing asylum requests
☑️ helping to reduce secondary movements

[2024-05-14 11:02 UTC]

EU sanctions can now target persons and entities supplying or involved in transferring Iranian missiles and drones to
➡️ Russia for use in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine
➡️ armed groups and entities undermining peace and security in the Middle-East and the Red Sea region
👇

[2024-05-14 10:29 UTC]

The Council has given a positive assessment of the 'Ukraine plan', Ukraine's comprehensive reform and investment strategy for the next four years.
This means that Ukraine fulfils the precondition for support under the Ukraine Facility, and that payments can start to flow.
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[2024-05-14 09:29 UTC]