A NATO főtitkárhelyettese, Mircea Geoană az AGERPRES-nek adott interjúban kijelentette: szeretné, ha a romániaiak meg lennének győződve arról, hogy a NATO nagyon komolyan veszi a szövetségesek – köztük Románia – területének védelmét.
Belgium sides with the European Commission in its EU Court of Justice proceedings over Hungary’s controversial LGBTQI+ legislation. Greece and Turkey cautiously seek political reconciliation after the latter was hit by devastating earthquakes last week. MEP Tineke Strik thinks the EU should better support Bosnia and Herzegovina and other states in the Western Balkans.
As Western countries pledged to step up deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, social media users in Thailand shared a fabricated quote that the European Union’s most senior diplomat Josep Borrell called to “keep using Ukrainians as our bait” in order to defeat Russia and “avenge Napoleon and Hitler”. While Borrell mentioned Napoleon and Hitler in a speech about the war in Ukraine, he was speaking in the context of Russia’s past military victories and did not say they should be “avenged”.
Slovensko poskytlo Svetovej zdravotníckej organizácii (WHO) príspevok vo výške 100.000 eur v reakcii na sériu zemetrasení, ktoré zasiahli Turecko a Sýriu. Eximbanka SR prináša pre exportérov v súvislosti s prudkým nárastom cien energií produkt – energetický úver. Ku koncu roka 2022 viedla Európska komisia (EK) vo vzťahu k SR 70 konaní o porušení zmlúv, najmä v súvislosti s nesprávnou transpozíciou alebo aplikáciou právne záväzných aktov EÚ. Slovenskí záchranári sa vrátili z Turecka, kde pomáhali pri záchrane preživších po zemetrasení.
On Monday, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck south-eastern Turkey, near the border with Syria. While the death toll continues to rise and search rescue operations drag on, countries in Europe and beyond are offering their assistance.