A new UN report on climate change released on Monday, which shows that harmful carbon emissions from 2010 to 2019 have never been so high in human history, is proof that the world is on a “fast track” to disaster. Read more
Commitment will be key to the success of the two-month truce in Yemen. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in more than seven years of fighting between Yemeni forces, backed by a Saudi coalition, and Houthi rebels. Read more
The Council adopted on 4 April legislative amendments allowing member states to redirect resources from cohesion policy funds and the European Fund for Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) to assist refugees fleeing Russian military aggression against Ukraine. Read more
The European Union and China held their 23rd bilateral Summit via videoconference on 1 April 2022. President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, held the Summit meeting with China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang, followed by exchanges with China’s President Xi Jinping. Read more
The European Union condemns in the strongest terms the reported atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces in several occupied Ukrainian towns, which have now been liberated. Read more
In an impassioned speech to the Security Council, Volodymyr Zelensky described in stark detail what he said was the deliberate massacre of civilians in Bucha by Russian forces, setting out an existential choice for its members about the entire future of the world’s security architecture, founded in 1945. Read more
We have just finished a substantive meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers. We agreed that we must further strengthen and sustain our support for Ukraine. So that Ukraine prevails in the face of Russia’s invasion. Read more
The resolution received a two-thirds majority vote, minus abstentions, in the 193-member Assembly, with 93 nations voting in favour and 24 against. Fifty-eight abstained. Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Vietnam were among those who voted against. Read more
Parliament expresses the greatest anger and indignation at the atrocities of the Russian armed forces and calls for those responsible for war crimes to be held accountable. Read more
Many of Libya’s migrant detention centres remain sites of appalling and systematic abuse, which may amount to crimes against humanity. Read more
