Oliver Varhelyi @OliverVarhelyi@respublicae.eu

🧵2/ Our partnership started to deliver ⏩ AND more to come
📌w/ 🇮🇹 delivering 5️⃣Search&Rescue boats to Libyan coast guard
📌w/ 🇫🇷🇩🇪improving 🇹🇳 border management capacity
📌w/ 🇫🇷 delivering vessels & equipment to 🇪🇬
📌w/ 🇪🇸 a new €150m budget support for 🇲🇦migration strategy

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1602322630740164610

🧵3/ Through the #EIP we invest to support economic growth & new jobs. My statement ⤵️

https://europa.eu/!GRgmvX

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1602321225228996609

Relevant & Timely! Today we launched 2 partnership projects on #Migration w/ N Africa to act united w/ robust action on the ground & w/out delay ⤵️
Illegal migratory pressure is on the rise. It endangers our shared prosperity, stability & security.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1602321216009822214

Eastern Partnership Foreign Affairs Ministerial ⤵️
#EaP remains crucial in promoting resilience, recovery & reforms. We will work w/ partners to speed up the implementation of the €17b #EIP. ⏩ It’s important to accelerate the green & digital transition & enhance connectivity.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1602306977689997313

Helping🇲🇩 to tackle consequences of the war & overcome the hardship of winter, esp. energy needs of 🇲🇩citizens, are our top priority. ⏩I assured ⁦@nicupopescu⁩ that we provide all the support we can.
As part of the Enlargement Track, 🇲🇩’s reform process is key to advance.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1602290166474883073

#FAC Breakfast Meeting⤵️
In the last months, our commitment to the #EasternPartnership has deepened & strengthened.
A more flexible, streamlined, & focused implementation of the #EaP is in our common interest.
Our €17b #EIP supporting our partnership is delivering on the ground.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1602252520998445056

Economic & Investment Plan of #SouthernNeighbourhood ⏩️ €30b
The plan includes 📌green & energy transition, eg. 🇪🇺🇲🇦 #Green Partnership, 🇪🇬🇬🇷#GREGY undersea electricity cable, 📌larger infrastructure projects, eg. 🇯🇴Water & wastewater programs, 📌digital connectivity, eg. ⤵️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1602021480887455745

Economic and Investment Plan of #EasternPartnership ⏩️ €17b
It includes 📌 transport projects, eg. Railways ensuring Green lanes & reinforcing trade routes to the 🇪🇺📌digital connectivity projects, eg. Fibre optic cable under the Black Sea
📌 electricity cable, eg. 🇬🇪🇪🇺cable⤵️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1602019537662132226

Economic and Investment Plan of the #WesternBalkans ⏩️ €30b
📌energy projects: electricity & gas interconnectors to bring Azeri gas & 1️⃣new LNG terminal
📌transport connectivity: rail & road to connect all capitals in the region w/ each other & the EU
⤵️project Corridor VIII

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1602015678617341953

Attended the 1️⃣st meeting of Global Gateway Board.
In the neighbourhood we implement it through the three #EIP that we developed together w/the regions.
We already work on 8️⃣4️⃣ flagship projects on connectivity that account for €1️⃣4️⃣ b Investments.
⤵️ http://europa.eu/!4xYyCV

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1602014654011785217

RT @EUAmbKS: The Embassies of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States and the EU Office/EUSR welcome the decision by the Kosovan government and the political party leaders to postpone the municipal and mayoral elections in the four northern municipalities at this time.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1601914838472605697

I welcome #Serbia’s decision to further align #visa policy with the #EU and introduce visas for Indian citizens from 1 January 2023.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1601631079949271040

#Kosovo’s imminent application to start the EU membership process was the topic of the meeting with ⁦@BislimiBesnik⁩.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1600799341664509952

#Sarajevo - 28-29 November 2022

We are all at a geopolitical crossroad. The place of Bosnia and Herzegovina is in the EU.

⏩️ sharing the highlights of my mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 ⤵️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1600589473250742275

Good exchange today w/ Bettina Jakobsen, Dean of Chamber III @EUAuditors on developments of the enlargement process, 🇺🇦financial support, reconstruction & reforms, collaboration w/ 🇹🇷, 🇲🇩financial support esp. mitigating the energy crisis & the 🇪🇺membership perspective of #WB.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1600578893580222474

Pleased to learn from Minister @RevencoAna how #Moldova is implementing the priorities set out in the Commission’s opinion w/ a special focus on internal security & fight against organized crime.
#EU is ready to provide🇲🇩 the necessary equipment for reinforcing internal security.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1600570488140480523

The @EU_Commission adopted a €25 million assistance programme to support civil society, students & professionals.
⏩️Since the 2020 fraudulent elections, #EU has supported the people of Belarus w/ over €100 million.
⏩️We continue to #StandWithBelarus
http://europa.eu/!Fvf4DR

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1600505618586112001

1️⃣step closer to digital connectivity.
Roaming costs between 🇪🇺 & #WesternBalkans will be reduced from 2023, w/ a view to full removal thereafter. This is 1️⃣ step closer to real integration
Press statement ⤵️
http://europa.eu/!pnqv93

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1600254645124976658

⏩ We support the WB to face the energy crisis.

⏩ We announced a EUR 1 b #Energy Support Package. ⤵️

The Western Balkans can be an energy hub: an entry & transit point.⤵️

This is why we support interconnectors and one new LNG terminal for the Western Balkans to be built.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/OliverVarhelyi/status/1600175688966758405