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Joined Apr 2022
🗓️ Mark your calendars!
Tomorrow is #EUOpenDay and we're opening our doors from 10 am to 6 pm. Come celebrate with us and get a taste of Europe! 🇪🇺
Here are 5 interesting facts about our institution to whet your appetite ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1654372857705816065
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Good call with @JustinTrudeau to discuss some of the key issues on the agenda of the G7 summit in Hiroshima:
• To sustain support to Ukraine - financially and militarily
• to ensure our economic security
• to step up global financing for climate and development
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1654136444963770371
EU unemployment in March 2023:
🇨🇿2.6%
🇩🇪2.8%
🇵🇱2.8%
🇲🇹2.9%
🇸🇮3.2%
🇳🇱3.5%
🇧🇬3.7%
🇭🇺3.9%
🇮🇪4.3%
🇦🇹4.5%
🇩🇰4.6%
🇱🇺4.7%
🇪🇪5.4%
🇷🇴5.4%
🇧🇪5.9%
🇪🇺6.0%
🇸🇰6.0%
🇭🇷6.2%
🇱🇹6.4%
🇱🇻6.5%
🇫🇮6.7%
🇨🇾6.8%
🇫🇷6.9%
🇵🇹6.9%
🇸🇪7.3%
🇮🇹7.8%
🇬🇷10.9%
🇪🇸12.8%
via @EU_Eurostat
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1654133760776888322
A more integrated energy system is key to achieving our energy and climate goals.
This is why we support diverse and often cross-border energy infrastructure projects that produce and distribute energy efficiently.
Discover some of them in our interactive map. ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1654121882940231682
Corruption is a serious threat to democracy and the rule of law.
With our anti-corruption package, we are stepping up at national and EU level.
For healthy democracies and societies, that citizens can trust.
Learn more ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1654111263725584390
"Circumvention of EU sanctions is illegal.
Progressively we introduce more measures to crack down on the circumvention of sanctions.
All EU countries make sure that EU sanctions are implemented fully."
— Spokesperson @DanielFerrie
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1654084279826096128
Diversity is our strength, and we're proud to showcase it during #EUDiversityMonth.
This year’s theme, 'Building Bridges', is all about fighting discrimination and promoting inclusive workplaces.
Join us and find out how diversity can benefit your organisation or business. ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1654067658617225218
RT @DigitalEU: Today we're stepping up the fight against online piracy.
The @EU_Commission has laid out recommendations on how to the combat commercial scale online piracy of:
🎤concerts
⚽️sports
🎭theatre performances
📺 other live events
Here's how ↓🧵 https://t.co/IAMcRbV5hu
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1654038361189801984
To all the firefighters who protect our lives and fight wildfires heroically, thank you.
On #InternationalFirefightersDay, we honour the service of the over 365 thousand professionals and 3.5 million volunteers whose work protect us, our properties, and the environment.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1654031859985305601
On Saturday 6 May, we open our EU galaxy for Europe Day.
Explore our events and activities ↓
http://europeday.europa.eu
#MayThe4thBeWithYou and...
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Press freedom and safety of journalists are paramount for our societies.
Across the world, journalists take great risks to inform us. Some are killed, threatened, jailed…
We must support them.
For example, imprisoned @evangershkovich
I call on Russia to immediately free…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1653779592690257920
We continue supporting one of the countries most directly and heavily impacted by Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
Today we've paid a €40 million loan to complete the disbursement of the second instalment in financial support to Moldova.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1653760809653219328
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In my State of the Union speech, I promised that we will step up our fight against corruption at home and abroad.
Today, we deliver an anti-corruption package, for healthy democracies and societies, that citizens can trust.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1653749815027851264
Say hello to lower roaming charges between the Western Balkans and the EU.
38 telecommunication operators have agreed to make roaming between both regions more affordable.
Price caps for 1GB will decrease to €18 from 1 October 2023, €14 from 2026, and €9 from 2028. ↓
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1653744660764934145
We are sending a clear message: the EU is not open for business to those who engage in corruption.
Read more → http://europa.eu/!yvB7cr
Q&A → http://europa.eu/!pCQHVj
Factsheet → http://europa.eu/!rv7wCd
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1653721023680770048
We will step up our action against corruption:
🔹 criminalising corruption offences across the EU
🔹 building a culture of integrity
🔹 ensuring effective investigations and prosecution of corruption.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1653721020941975553
Corruption is like cancer.
If left to run rampant, it will suffocate our democratic society and destroy its institutions.
Today, we take decisive action to tackle it in the EU and worldwide, delivering on the commitment made by President @vonderleyen in the last #SOTEU.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1653720414160289793
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Ukraine is heroically resisting the brutal Russian invader. We stand by our promise to support Ukraine and its people, for as long as it takes.
But Ukraine’s brave soldiers need sufficient military equipment to defend their country.
Europe is stepping up its support on 3…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/vonderleyen/status/1653709374290817024
Today we are providing €500 million and new measures to urgently boost EU defence industry capacities.
The proposal will allow the European defence industry to better support Ukraine and EU countries' armed forces.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1653702455706755074
Free and independent media is a necessity for democracy.
On #WorldPressFreedomDay and every day, the EU stands with media professionals who risk their lives to speak truth.
Our Media Freedom Act will protect them and uphold press freedom and pluralism.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1653675762380312578
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Joined Apr 2022
