🇪🇺EU-🇯🇵Japan 👉Cross-border data flows made easier and more efficient.

The Council approves an update of the economic partnership to have:

✅ no unjustified data localisation measures
✅ data protection assured
✅ greater legal certainty

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.EU Council decides to restrict visa provisions for Ethiopian nationals 🇪🇹

❗️This is due to insufficient cooperation by the Ethiopian government on readmission of its nationals.

Check the press release 👇
europa.eu/!Pwjwy6

.EU Council has adopted a set of revised rules to ensure more transparency on the origin of products and reduce food fraud. 🍯🍓🍎🥛 #BreakfastDirectives #AGRIFISH

Read more in our press release 👇
europa.eu/!mBNJR6

The #AGRIFISH Council is about to begin in Luxembourg, with the crisis response and support for farmers, agri-food trade and the #CAP performance report on the agenda.

Watch adoption of legislative A items here:

europa.eu/!8y9D6f

#EU2024BE

❗ NOW available – Forward look of EU Council meetings until 12 May

#AGRIFISH #FAC #EPSCO

Read it here 👇

#Moldova 🇲🇩: EU Council prolongs targeted restrictive measures against those responsible for actions aimed at destabilising, undermining or threatening the sovereignty & independence of the Republic of Moldova, until 29 April 2025.

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Myanmar 🇲🇲: EU Council renews sanctions for one year, until 30 April 2025.

The EU 🇪🇺 stands with the people of #Myanmar in their quest for a free, peaceful & democratic future.

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❗ 29 April 2024 – Agriculture and Fisheries Council
#AGRIFISH

📝 Check the indicative programme and the instructions to register to ask questions at the press conference 👇

⏱️ Deadline for registration: Monday 29 April at 17.40
europa.eu/!vd477w

❗ Monday 29 April at 13.30

💻 OFF-the-record press briefing in hybrid format ahead of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council of 7 May 2024 #EPSCO

📝 Instructions to participate 👇

⏱️ Deadline: Monday 29 April at 12.30
europa.eu/!JXMHRB

❗ NOW available: background brief ahead of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council of 29 April 2024 #AGRIFISH

Read it here 👇

❗️ The Belgian presidency has decided to activate the EU Council's Integrated Political Crisis Response (IPCR) arrangements to exchange information regarding foreign interference in the framework of the June 2024 European elections.

📰 Press release: consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press…

Thank you President Biden for your relentless work over the last months on this support package.

We stand united in our commitment to support a free and independent Ukraine integrated in the euro-atlantic community. Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський

⚠️EU Council #security exercise is over. Justus Lipsius main entrance is open again. Thanks to the Belgian security authorities and to all participants for strengthening our preparedness.

⚠️EU Council Justus Lipsius main entrance and press centre are closed today due to a joint #security exercise with the Belgian police taking place at the Council. Some noise may be audible. Europa building is open, incl. its press area.

❗ Thursday 25 April at 14.00

💻 OFF-the-record press briefing in hybrid format ahead of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council of 29 April 2024 #AGRIFISH

📝 Instructions to participate 👇

⏱️ Deadline to register: Thursday 25 April at 13.00
europa.eu/!Bb6qnh

#FAC |⌚🔜: press conference with Josep Borrell Fontelles following the Foreign Affairs Council.

Follow LIVE here: europa.eu/!TJRj8T

EU-Japan 🇪🇺🇯🇵: EU Council endorses the conclusion of the first-ever bilateral framework agreement!

The EU-Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement will ensure closer political & economic cooperation on bilateral, regional & multilateral issues.

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💡Charles Michel Charles Michel’s week ahead↓

📌Official visits:
- Senegal 🇸🇳
- Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮
- Benin 🇧🇯

📌Meetings with Presidents:
- Bassirou Diomaye Faye 🇸🇳
- Alassane Ouattara 🇨🇮
- @patricetalonpr 🇧🇯

consilium.europa.eu/en/european-co…

The EU 🇪🇺 will soon become a 'friend' of the Djibouti Code of Conduct/Jeddah Amendment, reinforcing its long-standing dedication to maritime security in the Western Indian Ocean & Red Sea and its role in combatting piracy & illegal maritime activities.

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❗ NOW available – Forward look of EU Council meetings until 5 May #FAC #AGRIFISH

Read it here👇