The President of the European Council, António Costa, will travel to Japan and China, together with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to represent the EU in the EU-Japan Summit on 23 July and EU-China Summit on 24 July.

European Council President António Costa met with the President of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto in Brussels. In his opening remarks, he highlighted that the trade agreement will deepen our exchanges and build a strategic partnership that reflects our shared objectives.

Erklæring fra den højtstående repræsentant på Den Europæiske Unions vegne om visse tredjelandes tilslutning til Rådets afgørelse (FUSP) 2025/820 af 25. april 2025 om ændring af afgørelse 2013/184/FUSP om restriktive foranstaltninger på baggrund af situationen i Myanmar/Burma.

EU udsendte en erklæring, hvori det utvetydigt fordømte det afskyelige terrorangreb i Pahalgam, Jammu og Kashmir den 22. april.

Rådet forlængede i dag EU's restriktive foranstaltninger på baggrund af situationen i Myanmar med et år indtil 30. april 2026.

Rådet vedtager vigtig afgørelse om aftalen om digital handel med Singapore.

Rådet vedtog en afgørelse om at yde op til 500 mio. € i makrofinansiel bistand til Jordan.

At the end of the EU-Central Asia summit, European Council President António Costa held a joint press point with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. In his remarks, President Costa highlighted the summit as the beginning of a new chapter in the EU-Central Asia partnership, which was elevated to a strategic level.

Following the first EU-Central Asia summit, European Council President António Costa, together with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, issued a joint press release, praising the successful outcome of the summit. The three leaders stressed the importance of upgrading the EU-Central Asia relations to a strategic partnership and outlined the main deliverables agreed during the summit.

European Council President António Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the leaders of the five Central Asian countries met in Samarkand for the first summit between the EU and Central Asia. The leaders issued a joint declaration, elevating the relations between the two regions to a strategic partnership.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Samarkand international climate forum, following the EU-Central Asia summit, European Council President António Costa emphasised the urgent need for global cooperation to tackle the climate crisis, highlighting the growing challenges faced by both Europe and Central Asia. He also reaffirmed the EU's commitment a strategic partnership with Central Asia that prioritizes climate action and shared prosperity.

In his opening remarks at the first EU-Central Asia summit in Samarkand, European Council President António Costa highlighted the 30-year diplomatic ties between the EU and Central Asia. Marking a new chapter in the relations between the two regions, the summit elevates the EU-Central Asia partnership to a strategic level and President Costa emphasised the need for continued and deeper cooperation to tackle global and regional challenges.

European Council President António Costa participated in a trilateral meeting with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Samarkand, ahead of the first EU-Central Asia summit. In his opening remarks, he emphasised the significance of the summit as a milestone for strengthening the partnership between the two regions, and anticipated the signing of the enhanced partnership and cooperation agreement with Uzbekistan later in the year.

The President of the European Council, António Costa will be in France to attend the SOS Ocean! conference in Paris on 31 March, before going to Strasbourg for the plenary session of the European Parliament on 1 April. The President will then travel to Samarkand to represent the EU at the first ever EU-Central Asia summit on 4 April.

Rådet udnævnte en ny særlig EU-repræsentant for Centralasien og forlængede mandatet for EUSR for Golfregionen.

Det første topmøde mellem EU og Centralasien finder sted 3.-4. april i Samarkand, Usbekistan. Det Europæiske Råds formand, António Costa, og Europa-Kommissionens formand, Ursula von der Leyen, vil sammen med lederne af de fem centralasiatiske lande drøfte, hvordan det bilaterale engagement kan intensiveres, og hvordan samarbejdet mellem de to regioner kan styrkes. De vil også behandle de aktuelle geopolitiske udfordringer, som regionen står over for, nemlig Ruslands angrebskrig mod Ukraine og den igangværende udvikling i Afghanistan.

EU udsendte en erklæring på fireårsdagen for militærkuppet i Myanmar, hvori det gentager sin allerkraftigste fordømmelse af regimets vold og opfordrer til, at alle grusomheder bringes til ophør.

Rådet forlængede mandatet for EU's civile mission i Armenien indtil 19. februar 2027.

Den strategiske partnerskabsaftale mellem EU og Japan træder i kraft i dag.

Erklæring fra den højtstående repræsentant på Den Europæiske Unions vegne om visse tredjelandes tilslutning til Rådets afgørelse (FUSP) 2024/2783 af 29. oktober 2024 om ændring af afgørelse 2013/184/FUSP om restriktive foranstaltninger på baggrund af situationen i Myanmar/Burma.