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Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union, during her last press conference as President of the Council of Ministers, on November 12 (credit: EU Council)
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[Verbatim] What to remember from the EU Defense Ministerial of November 12, 2019

(B2) The meeting of EU Defense Ministers was quite dense and active on Tuesday (12 November), with different topics where Ministers (or their representatives) were quite vocal The meeting was

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Notebook (15.11.2019). PESC (Israel Settlements Labeling and EU-USA. Belarus-EOM. CSDP Civil Pact). Defense (Franco-German agreement. Czech-Slovak cooperation. Belgium-NGO). Diplomacy (Syria ceasefire. Cyprus negotiations. Bolivia out of crisis. Somalia support. Russia…

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the AFET committee on Wednesday (credit: PE)
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