Today, Sudan, the European Union, Germany, and the United Nations co-hosted a virtual High-Level Sudan Partnership Conference. The Joint Communiqué adopted by the participants, confirmed the support of the international community to the democratic and economic transition in Sudan headed by the civilian-led transitional Government. In addition to displaying strong political support to the ongoing […]
On 26 May, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Council President Charles Michel and the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe will hold a virtual leaders’ meeting to address matters related to the coronavirus pandemic, preparations for the upcoming G7 summit, and the implementation of the EU-Japan Strategic Partnership. As G7, G20 and strategic, likeminded […]
President von der Leyen said: “I welcome the constructive proposal made by France and Germany. It acknowledges the scope and the size of the economic challenge that Europe faces, and rightly puts the emphasis on the need to work on a solution with the European budget at its core. This goes in the direction of […]
Good evening. Today, the European Union has shown that it is able to deliver solutions and implement the decisions we took a few weeks ago. First of all, we finalised the ESM Pandemic Crisis Support, which is now available and ready for use. It is, as you know, favourable financing worth 2% of each euro […]
“Check against delivery” Good evening. We had a positive meeting of the Eurogroup, as Mario said. This afternoon I set out for the Eurogroup the key findings of the Spring Forecast of the Commission: We appreciated the convergence of analysis of our Spring Forecast with that of the European Central Bank. Our main objective today, […]
IMF Spring Meetings Georgieva Press Conference The IMF is laying out a plan for countries to follow as a roadmap to recovery. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva outlined the difficult economic environment countries are facing because of the Covid-19 epidemic and her Global Plan of Action to take it on at a virtual press conference […]
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