EU’s new military aid fund positioned to take off operationally in July
by Brooks Tigner
The co-ordination and initial use of the EU’s new foreign military aid programme, the European Peace Facility (EPF), will be closely aligned with the union’s military training and security missions in Africa to complement their objectives, says the chief EU official overseeing the fund, who added that a first set of priorities for the EPF will soon be mapped out.
The EPF is to become operational in July. (Getty Images)
“The EU’s CSDP [Common Security and Defence Policy] missions in Africa will be closely associated with our work in that they will be involved in the design, evaluation, control and advice for any aid distributed from the EPF,” Stefano Tomat told a 14 April meeting in Brussels of the European Parliament’s Security and Defence (SEDE) subcommittee. Tomat is director of CSDP and crisis response policy within the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU’s fore
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Intra-EU Feud Led To Sofagate In Turkey: Europe Press
Turkey the victim in bizarre power struggle between top EU officials in recent Ankara meeting, say German, French media. German and French media outlets have reported that a protocol issue at a recent meeting between top EU officials and Turkey was the result of poor relations between EU Council head Charles Michael and EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen.
According to one of the articles in German weekly Der Speigel, von der Leyen was duped in the Tuesday visit to the Turkish capital Ankara, when she was briefly left standing before she took a seat on a sofa, while Michel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sat in separate chairs
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