The EU's increased defence spending priorities must not come at the expense of development aid, as this could risk isolating the continent geopolitically, the Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen warned in an interview.
Europe should have a containment strategy towards Russia, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský told Euractiv as his country prepares to host NATO foreign ministers on Thursday (30 May) to work on a new kind of support package for Ukraine.
Kyiv is looking for European Union funds to boost support for its domestic arms industry and tap into additional non-contracted capacities, Ukraine's Minister of Strategic Industries, Oleksandr Kamyshin, told Euractiv. "[Our] objective is to find more funds to procure from Ukrainian …
Ukraine's future accession to the bloc will bring more benefits than costs, and EU member states should approve the next formal steps later this week, the country's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told Euractiv. "We are waiting and wishing to have approval …
A defeat of Ukraine would put European values at risk, which is why there is no alternative but for Europe's support to continue, European Council President Charles Michel told a group of media, including Euractiv, in an interview.
Minutes after the European Council President Charles Michel announced the agreement for 50 billion euros in Ukraine aid, Euractiv spoke to German MEP Daniel Freund (Greens), who has been among the most outspoken critics of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the run-up to this extraordinary EU summit.
Hungary’s potential veto over financial aid to Ukraine and opening accession talks with Kyiv at the EU summit later this week will be a 'failure of the entire bloc, not only of one European leader', Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna said in an interview.
Germany's internal fiscal discussion is currently the biggest obstacle to a deal on a mid-term revision of the EU's seven-year financing plan, the EU's Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said in an interview on Thursday (30 November).
The former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko told Euractiv that he is “absolutely sure” that instructors from the Wagner Russian mercenary group were transferred from Syria to Gaza to help prepare the terrorist attacks on Israel perpetrated on 7 October.
Entering accession talks with the EU would help make the reform process in Ukraine faster and more effective, Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko told EURACTIV, voicing hope that this would happen by the end of 2023.
Failure to give Ukraine the support it needs to defend itself against the Russian invasion will have a higher cost for everyone, including European countries, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Gabrelius Landsbergis told EURACTIV.
Work on pressuring Russia to stop its war on Ukraine must continue, even at a national level when the EU cannot, Jan Marian deputy foreign minister of the Czech Republic, told EURACTIV in an interview on Monday (3 June).
Lithuania's president urged NATO leaders to be bolder in addressing Ukraine's push for membership at a summit in his country next week, saying this would boost Kyiv's battlefield performance while Moscow would see any caution as weakness.
Failure to use the EU's Temporary Protection Directive in 2015 was the 'wrong decision', Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson told EURACTIV, reflecting on the refugee crisis caused by Russia's war on Ukraine and the EU's response one year on. "If you …
Ukraine hopes for a positive assessment of its efforts to implement political reforms later this year and will engage in bilateral talks with EU countries to streamline reforms and track progress, the country's Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna told EURACTIV.
There can be no comparison between Russia’s full-blown invasion of Ukraine and the United States-led invasion of Iraq, which the UK government backed almost 20 years ago, former British prime minister Tony Blair said in an interview with EURACTIV's partner EFE and three other European news agencies.
The EU has nearly exhausted its options for punitive measures against Russia and the bloc’s attention needs to shift to financial and military support for Ukraine, the EU's chief diplomat Josep Borrell told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.
Once the EUs new space-based secure communication system is operational, it could be offered to help third countries like Ukraine and reduce their dependence on a single provider, Ekaterini Kavvada, the director of development and innovation at the Commission's DG DEFIS, told EURACTIV.
TurkStream gas pipeline is a conduit for Russian interests in Southeast Europe and should be subject to sanctions, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, a former close associate of Boyko Borissov, who as prime minister ensured the construction of the Bulgarian section for a record time, told EURACTIV.
The EU must impose a flat travel ban on Russian citizens until Moscow ends its invasion of Ukraine, Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas told EURACTIV.
Despite an adequate and friendly global response, the only option to restore grain exports from Ukraine is to win the war as Russia can not be trusted in any plan aimed at unblocking seaports in the South of the country, Ukraine's deputy agriculture minister told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.
The EU's stalled accession process has become a security issue amid an increase in the influence of foreign players in the vulnerable Western Balkans region, North Macedonia's Prime Minister Dimitar Kovačevski told EURACTIV in an interview.
In an interview with EURACTIV, Witold Waszczykowski, the former foreign minister of Poland and a leading lawmaker in the European Parliament, gave a less than optimistic account of the extraordinary EU summit on Ukraine held on 30-31 May.
The EU should open its doors to Ukraine, paving the way for immediate access to trade, programs, funding, transport, movement, and more, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview. Asked by EURACTIV what her thoughts are on …
