When silence speaks louder than words.
People in 🇹🇷 Adana stayed silent so that emergency workers could hear and help survivors under the debris.
Thank you to all European rescue teams for saving lives.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623981778049310720
On migration, the lesson is clear: we need to act together.
We agreed on concrete and operational steps forward along two tracks:
First, keeping the pace on the Pact on Migration and Asylum. I count on the 🇸🇪🇪🇸 presidencies.
And 4 types of priority measures we can take now ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1623861810959982592
Maintaining our industrial competitiveness globally.
Managing migration as a Union.
Two major challenges that require common action.
Glad we could agree on concrete steps forward tonight at EUCO ↓
https://n.respublicae.eu/i/broadcasts/1vAxRAdmZZqJl
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1623858215292375041
#OnThisDay in 1953 the European Coal and Steel Community officially opened.
70 years ago the common market integrated the coal and steel industries of 🇧🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇺🇳🇱.
It was a major step in building relations between the founding members of what became later the EU.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623947375361527809
The road to net-zero will be the greatest transformation of our times.
EU leaders are meeting in Brussels today and tomorrow to discuss, among other things, the Green Deal Industrial Plan: our plan for putting Europe's net-zero industry in the lead ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623720883822133248
"Let's turn Ukrainian dreams into reality,
into the European way of life.
Your fight is a fight for independence, for democracy, for a free Europe.
Thank you @ZelenskyyUa for the strong message."
— President @vonderleyen, 9 february 2023.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623711424810721282
A message to all Europeans by President @ZelenskyyUa
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623688815289286659
"We have the political will
to hold the perpetrator accountable
for the crime of aggression.
Russia must pay for the destruction caused and for the blood spilt."
— President @vonderleyen at the Special #EUCO press conference.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623681487525617667
Ukrainians are giving their life
for a free and independent Ukraine.
They are fighting for the respect of our common values.
Press conference by President @vonderleyen, President of the EU Council @CharlesMichel and Ukrainian President @ZelenskyyUa.
https://n.respublicae.eu/i/broadcasts/1lPKqBRjNAwGb
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623667844159340544
RT @vonderleyen: With your voice, President @ZelenskyyUa, the voices of millions of Ukrainians echo through the halls of this assembly.
Millions of Ukrainians who are aspiring to a European future.
Let’s turn their dreams into reality.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623643760541270016
Today, courage has a name, and that name is Ukraine.
Courage has a face, the face of Ukrainian men and women who are standing up to Russian aggression.
🔴 LIVE: President @ZelenskyyUa addresses the European Parliament
https://n.respublicae.eu/i/broadcasts/1yNxaNdjDyqKj
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623624473415917568
🇪🇺🇺🇦 Welcome to Brussels, dear @ZelenskyyUa
The heart of the European family, in which Ukraine belongs.
We will support Ukraine every step of the way towards our Union.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1623609001580560384
We are sending a message to the people of Türkiye and Syria: the EU will support you.
President @vonderleyen and @SwedishPM have today announced their intention to host a Donors' Conference to mobilise the international community in support of the people of Türkiye and Syria.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623367499524804628
EU countries continue to make progress in the implementation of their Recovery and Resilience Plans.
Today, we've endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of:
🇸🇰Slovakia (€709 million)
🇨🇿Czechia (€928 million)
And we disbursed €1.8 billion to 🇵🇹Portugal.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623359558688153602
More and more European teams are joining rescue efforts in Türkiye via #EUCivPro Mechanism.
20 EU countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇧🇬🇭🇷🇨🇿🇨🇾🇪🇪🇫🇷🇬🇷🇩🇪🇭🇺🇮🇹🇲🇹🇳🇱🇵🇱🇵🇹🇷🇴🇸🇰🇸🇮🇪🇸 and 🇦🇱🇲🇪🇷🇸 have offered 31 search & rescue and 5 medical teams.
In total, 1,500 rescuers and 100 search dogs have been mobilised.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623325421138857984
European rescue teams are working around the clock to save the lives of the thousands of people trapped under the rubble and to support those affected.
The EU is considering all feasible options to deploy additional resources inside Türkiye and Syria.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623315048297910275
Syria requested the activation of the #EUCivPro Mechanism.
The EU is the primary donor of humanitarian aid for Syria and in no way the EU sanctions imposed on the Syrian's regime's violent repression affect the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Commissioner @JanezLenarcic ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623299355334656001
For over 20 years, the #EUCivPro Mechanism has ensured a swift and efficient emergency response.
The new goals will help to keep up with the changing and more challenging disaster risk landscape.
More information: http://europa.eu/!YVBF9w
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623265623181492225
5️⃣ Secure:
Emergency response operation centres across Europe will help make sure that civil protection systems are operational 24/7, during and after disasters, when they are needed the most.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623264462248505346
4⃣ Respond:
Scaling-up the EU's own strategic reserves and pool capacities will ensure that the EU can provide more help and fill critical gaps when the capacity of a disaster-affected country is overwhelmed.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1623264345084887041
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