Oliver Varhelyi @OliverVarhelyi@respublicae.eu

At the donor meeting of #Egypt #Energy Wealth Initiative announced 🇪🇺political support & funding up to €35 m.
🇪🇬 is a reliable, predictable, long-term partner in energy security & diversification.
Big potential for our positive agenda:🇪🇺🇪🇬🇮🇱gas agreement or 🇪🇬🇬🇷electricity grids

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🧵2/2 #Egypt - More assistance to come next year to border management.
My message at today’s signature ceremony ⤵️ https://europa.eu/!QQYN86

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#Egypt : Signature ceremony - We are delivering life-saving equipment to the Egyptian Coast Guard & Border Guards for effective border surveillance and search & rescue at land and sea. Acknowledging the valuable work of the Egyptian authorities. 🧵2/1

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#Egypt is a reliable and predictable partner of the EU. Our prosperity and stability goes hand in hand.

Pleased to launch today a joint project on #border protection with Egypt, France and IOM to address the common challenges of illegal #migration. ⁦@UNmigration⁩ #civipol

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#Türkiye – visited the Eastern Border

Press statement in Van after visiting the Turkish – Iranian border. ➡️http://europa.eu/!8KMDX8

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🧵2/2 Protecting the #borders , cracking down on smugglers & organized crime groups who use illegal migrants are common priorities to address together.

We appreciate the enormous efforts by #Türkiye.

🇹🇷 can continue to count on Europe as we want to continue to count on you.

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My visit with Minister of Interior ⁦@suleymansoylu⁩ at #Türkiye’s Eastern borders demonstrates advanced work on keeping the #borders under control. ⁦@TC_icisleri⁩ 🧵2/1

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Renewable #Energy Investment Conference, #Georgia
Investing in renewable energy, energy connectivity & security is key for 🇪🇺&🇬🇪.
➡️ Key projects: Black Sea electricity cable, exporting 🇬🇪green electricity, Southern Gas Corridor passing through 🇬🇪
🎥⤵️ http://europa.eu/!RbQWfY

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#Istanbul : signature ceremony of ENHANCER project ➡️ €32.5 m support to SMEs
EU remains committed to supporting SMEs & innovation ➡️ 300 new businesses, 1,200 sustainable jobs & opportunities for 400 SMEs
We demonstrate our continued solidarity w/ Türkiye for hosting #refugees

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Good meeting w/ Minister of Industry ⁦⁦@varank⁩
Discussed the outlook for 🇪🇺-🇹🇷 relations on business, industry, research & innovation.
Joint efforts needed to step up the bilateral relations, incl. Türkiye Investment Platform #TIP w/ investments in green & digital.

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#Istanbul: the Türkiye #Investment Platform #TIP

There is a strong call & interest by the European and Turkish #business community for future-proof investments.

This is also demonstrated by the threefold oversubscription at the 1st call for proposals.

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#Istanbul: Had a good meeting w/ ⁦@ticaret⁩ Minister ⁦@mehmedmus⁩

We discussed our bilateral economic & trade relations.
Also we discussed the consequences of war in Ukraine on #energy and #food security.

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#Istanbul - High-Level Business Dialogue w/ Minister ⁦@mehmedmus⁩ DPM ⁦@frkkymkc⁩

Strong foundations for trade & investment relations, w/ huge untapped potential, incl. in near-shoring, while firm need for well-functioning Customs Union & addressing trade irritants.

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Started my 3.mission to #Türkiye today.

We will discuss the state of play of EU-Türkiye bilateral relations.

Türkiye remains a key partner for the EU and a candidate country. Our relations are at a critical juncture, also in view of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

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Border and migration management in the Western Balkans - This package is timely, as #migration remains an area where we need to work even more closely with our #WesternBalkan partners.

⤵️ press statement: http://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_6276/smo

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Supporting #Enlargement means investing in peace, democracy, and prosperity in the region and beyond.
            ⤵️ My message at the first East Med & Southeast Europe Conference
🎥 http://europa.eu/!x8pPYn

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Since the beginning of my mandate I vocally support the integration of #Roma people. Providing quality education or supporting entrepreneurship are ways to break the poverty cycle & enable Roma citizens to be part of economic development. ⤵️ #RomaPlatform
http://europa.eu/!HJgjPW

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BERLIN: Good meeting w/ President ⁦⁦@wernerhoyer⁩
#Ukraine #EasternPartnership #WB – We build, repair, reconstruct & modernize.
The Commission⁩ continues to work to be able to guarantee more of ⁦@EIB⁩ activities.
 
We bring growth & big investments w/ our #EIP.

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Pleased to participate in ⁦@EIB⁩ – ⁦⁦@UNDPEU⁩ signature ceremony. This new EU project on Public Buildings Energy Efficiency will help cities to repair & modernize public 🏢 in #Ukraine . 
So far 💯 schools & hospitals ve been constructed. Getting ready for winter!

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#Morocco has just suffered the worst drought in 40yrs & the war in Ukraine seriously affected its food market. We stand by Morocco in this challenging situation. ➡️ under the #EIP a €115 million program on sustainable agriculture & forest management was offered. ⤵️ press release
RT @eu_near: 🇪🇺🇲🇦 EU-Morocco Green Partnership🤝

The @EU_Commission adopts a key programme to support the agricultural🚜🌾and forestry sectors🌲🌿in 🇲🇦 #Mor…

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