I spoke with President @RTErdogan on the phone to convey my deepest condolences to the people of Türkiye for the catastrophic loss of life and destruction caused by the devastating earthquake, and discuss additional support.
Europe is by your side.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1624811106085609474
The EU and EU countries are the leading donors of international aid to Syrians in need. Together, we have mobilised over €27 billion since 2011.
We are quickly adapting ongoing humanitarian projects and have allocated a further €3.5 million to cover needs after the earthquake.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624800499613720576
"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 this week's special #EUCO press conference.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624777847108964352
This week, Ukrainian President @ZelenskyyUa addressed the European Parliament in Brussels at a special session and shared a message to all Europeans ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624694811079892994
Today, EU citizens will present their final recommendations on food waste reduction in 3 areas:
🟢 Cooperation in the food value chain: from farm to fork
🟢 Food business initiatives
🟢 Supporting consumer behavioural change
Watch live from 9.00 CET ↓
#FoodWasteEU #EUFarm2Fork
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624672151356977153
Local responders in Türkiye and Syria are working tirelessly to save lives.
We are at their side with all possible humanitarian, civil protection and financial aid.
More is coming.
Early March, @SwedishPM and I will convene a Donors’ Conference to mobilise more relief funding
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1624393369836261377
👩🔬👩💻How many #WomeninScience are in your country?
🇸🇪 13%
🇩🇰 11%
🇮🇪 11%
🇵🇹 10%
🇸🇮 10%
🇧🇪 10%
🇳🇱 9%
🇱🇹 9%
🇲🇹 9%
🇦🇹 9%
🇱🇺 9%
🇪🇪 8%
🇵🇱 8%
🇷🇴 8%
🇧🇬 7%
🇪🇸 7%
🇫🇮 7%
🇪🇺 7%
🇨🇾 7%
🇨🇿 7%
🇫🇷 7%
🇱🇻 7%
🇩🇪 6%
🇭🇷 6%
🇬🇷 6%
🇭🇺 5%
🇸🇰 4%
🇮🇹 4%
Stats on #WomeninScienceDay via @EU_Eurostat
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624438112268197889
We are prolonging our roaming agreement to ensure affordable or free calls between the EU and Ukraine.
The voluntary measures taken jointly by EU and UA operators allow over 4 million refugees to have affordable connectivity as they seek shelter in the EU. ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624385262343143432
Today is 11/2 – #112Day!
Wherever you are in the EU, you can call 112 to contact any emergency service.
If you don’t know your exact location, the operator will identify it and pass it to the emergency authorities so that they can help immediately.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624347514693619712
💙 Heroics
💙 Determined
💙 United
We would like to thank all the rescue teams who – through our #EUCivilProtection Mechanism - offered support and quickly deployed to help in the rescue efforts following the devastating earthquakes.
🇪🇺 is with the people of Türkiye and Syria.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624310014012956672
On day 5 of the earthquake aftermath, #EUCivilProtection operation continues:
21 EU countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇧🇬🇭🇷🇨🇿🇪🇪🇫🇷🇬🇷🇩🇪🇭🇺🇮🇹🇱🇹🇲🇹🇳🇱🇵🇱🇵🇹🇷🇴🇸🇰🇸🇮🇪🇸 and 🇦🇱🇲🇪🇷🇸 have offered 32 search & rescue and 6 medical teams.
In total, 1651 rescuers & 106 search dogs have been mobilised.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624085097086431248
The European Citizens' Panel on food waste is meeting today and this weekend.
Around 150 Europeans will work on their recommendations on how to accelerate our actions to reduce food waste.
These recommendations will feed into the EU's work in this field.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624051812763312133
At yesterday’s #EUCO, EU leaders gave their green light to our Green Deal Industrial Plan.
For Europeans, this plan means turning skills into quality jobs and innovation into mass production.
It will allow our clean tech industries to scale up quickly.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624037974286516224
Chile ha solicitado asistencia a través del Mecanismo de Protección Civil de la UE para luchar contra los devastadores incendios que están afectando al país.
Agradecemos a 🇫🇷🇵🇹🇪🇸 el apoyo para movilizar a más de 250 bomberos y médicos hacia las áreas más afectadas.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1624030717062615040
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
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