The European Union and India agreed to restart talks on a free trade deal that have been frozen since 2013. Aljazeera | 08.05.2021 Link:  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/8/eu-and-india-agree-to-resume-long-stalle ..read more

EU defence ministers on Thursday (6 May) agreed to allow the United States, Norway and Canada to join the bloc’s project on military mobility, seen as the ‘silver bullet’ for EU-NATO defence cooperation and designed to ensure seamless movement of military equipment across the EU in response to crises. EURACTIV | 06.05.2021 Link:  https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/news/us-norway-canada-amon ..read more

European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová hit back at Moscow after she was banned from entering Russia, telling Monday's Brussels Playbook that the regime "aims to divide us and sow mistrust" in Europe. POLITICO | 03.05.2021 Link:  https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-chiefs-condemn-russia-over-travel-ban-vera-jo ..read more

Former European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker believes the European Union has to be “less naive” with China, saying that “Europeans have to organise their relations” better with other foreign powers. EURACTIV | 03.05.2021 Link:  https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-china/news/juncker-eu-has-to-be-less-naive-w ..read more

EU condemns Moscow’s tit-for-tat measures, says it reserves right ‘to take appropriate measures in response’. Aljazeera | 30.04.2021 Link:  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/30/russia-blacklists-eight-eu-officials-in ..read more

The European Union called out China on Saturday (24 April) for endangering peace in the South China Sea and urged all parties to abide by a 2016 tribunal ruling which rejected most of China’s claim to sovereignty in the sea, but which Beijing has rejected. EURACTIV | 26.04.2021 Link:  https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-china/news/eu-blames-china-for-endangering-p ..read more

Currently, there are around 2.6 million registered Afghan refugees across the globe. In 2020, Afghan refugees were the second largest group of asylum seekers in continental Europe, having fled Afghanistan for a variety of reasons including persecution, conflict, economic hardship, and climate induced displacement. Each person has a different reason, in many cases multiple reasons, for leaving in search of safety. Aljazeera | 25.04.2021 Link:  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/4/26/the-eu-efforts-to-repatriate-afghan ..read more

Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has demanded EU support in the upcoming elections. EUObserver | 23.04.2021 Link:  https://euobserver.com/world/151641 ..read more

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Friday called for the creation of an African Green Deal which, like the European Green Deal, would be the “centrepiece” for Africa’s recovery. EURACTIV | 23.04.2021 Link:  https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/von-der-leyen-calls-for ..read more

“Sofagate” has brutally disclosed the internal divergences within the EU in the field of its external relations. Egmont Institute | 22.04.2021 Link:  https://www.egmontinstitute.be/the-external-representation-of-the-eu-a-simple-ma ..read more