Tag: Council of Europe

Middle East: Council presidency triggers activation of the Integrated Political Crisis Response

  On 17 October, EU leaders meeting in a videoconference to discuss the situation in the Middle East, identified important and urgent areas of work including humanitarian assistance, engagement with partners, domestic security issues and migration. They highlighted the importance ...

Co-Chairs’ Statement of the 27th GCC-EU Joint Council and Ministerial Meeting

  The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU) met in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, on 9-10 October 2023 for the 27th GCC-EU Joint Council (hereafter “Joint Council”) meeting, to further consolidate ...

European and World Day against the Death Penalty, 10 October 2023: Joint statement by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and the High Representative, on behalf of the European Union

  On the occasion of the European and World Day against the Death Penalty, the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe strongly reaffirm their unequivocal opposition to the death penalty, including any reintroduction of it, in all cases ...

Belarus: EU adopts new round of individual sanctions over continued human rights abuses and imposes further targeted measures in response to involvement in Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine

  The Council today imposed sanctions on an additional 38 individuals and 3 entities. It also extended export bans to firearms, aviation and space industry. We have adopted new sanctions in reaction to the Lukashenko’s illegitimate regime continued systematic, widespread and gross ...

Democratic Republic of the Congo: EU lists nine individuals responsible for human rights violations and abuses and for sustaining armed conflict, instability and insecurity

  Today, the Council imposed restrictive measures against nine Congolese and Rwandan individuals responsible for acts that constitute serious human rights violations and abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and for sustaining the armed conflict, instability and insecurity in the DRC. The listings include ...