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.
Georgia's controversial 'foreign agent' law profoundly changes the country's relationship with its Western partners and the EU should take the outcome of the upcoming elections as a basis to reassess its ties with Tbilisi, the country's President Salome Zourabishvili told Euractiv.
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.
Georgia plans to catch up with Ukraine and Moldova, which are farther along their EU accession path, and the key will be holding orderly elections in October, forming a pro-European government, and implementing EU recommendations, President Salome Zourabishvili told 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).
Moldova will continue working together with the EU to keep "cleaning its system from the toxic influence of criminal oligarchs" as part of a concerted push to advance its EU membership bid, the country's Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu told Euractiv.
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.
Enlargement of the EU by 2030 is doable, but only if the candidates and the bloc itself "redouble their efforts", Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhely told EURACTIV, adding that the European Commission will make "substantial proposals" for enlargement in October.
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.
Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria continues to enjoy “de facto free gas” from Russia’s Gazprom – a situation which satisfies no one but ensures political stability in the Russian-controlled region, the country’s energy minister told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.
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.
In an interview with independent Kazakh analyst Anastassiya Reshetnyak, EURACTIV took stock of a busy diplomatic week in Central Asia during which several regional conflicts unfolded, including between Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
