Angelina Eichhorst

Important decision : Egypt to join the @wto.org Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement #WTOIFD. This is mutually supportive of our EU-Egypt work to improve the business climate, attract more #FDI, enhance our relations as Strategic Partners.

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Israel/Palestine: statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on Gaza The EU issued a statement welcoming and supporting the principles of President Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza, and urges all parties to accept and implement it.

EU on Gaza: ‘Transitional arrangements should pave the way for lasting, sustainable peace through credible pathway towards political horizon for Palestinian statehood & the 2-state solution, based on the principles endorsed by large majority UN Member States’

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SOTEU @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu : ‘Commission will do all it can on its own’ -> pause bilat support (not Yad Vashem & Israeli cs) propose sanctions violent settlers, partial suspension trade aspects EU-Israel Association Agreement. Gaza reconstruction, support Pal Authority, viable Palestinian State

Just spoke with IAEA Rafael Grossi, Iran FM Araghchi and Egypt FM Abdelatty.

Today’s framework deal for resuming inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities could mark a crucial step for nuclear diplomacy, provided there is rapid implementation by Iran.

I thank Egypt for facilitating the process.

A powerful competitiveness boost, for the EU to secure supply chains, scale-up innovation and lead the global race for clean and smart technology ;
A balanced package of new own resources that ensures adequate revenues for our priorities while minimising pressure on national public finances .

Next Multiannual Financial Framework : A budget focused on EU priorities: competitiveness, defence, security, decarbonisation, sustainability, economic, social, territorial cohesion;
More flexibility; Simpler, more streamlined and harmonised EU financial programmes; tailored to local need ->

The mandate of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon UNIFIL established in 1978, has been renewed unanimously, one final time. The complete end to all violations of Lebanese sovereignty are essential conditions for the country’s security and prosperity. This goes for all countries in the region.

On behalf of the EU Delegation to Egypt & LAS @euinegypt.bsky.social I extended today my best wishes to Mykola Nahornyi, Ambassador of Ukraine to Egypt, to mark the country's Independence Day. With the greatest and deepest admiration for the unbreakable courage and spirit of all Ukrainian people.

Yes - just listened to BBC Weekend’s item on how Denmark is protecting + stimulating the Art of Reading - for all books or only Danish reading? - though language does not really matter - its important to Read, its abt developing critical thinking, learning languages. Look at Iceland, Italy, Ukraine

@tomfletcherun.bsky.social @unocha.org @wfp @who @unicef : The UN has now officially declared famine in Gaza, the first in the Middle East. Half a million people are in a catastrophic condition. 500 000 people.

What a joy when reconnecting w/ @maryfitzger.bsky.social last week & the first author & book coming to our minds was ‘Chronicles of a #Cairo Bookseller’ by Nadia Wassef, which I happened to have in my bag as this year’s re-reading ‘annual leave companion’ #enlightening #bookstore #Diwan #fascinating

I met Sonallah Ibrahim in 1985 during a student trip & an exchange in Café Riche with novelists, glued to our chairs listening to Egypt’s intellectuals. Also met Ra’ouf Mus’ad, now settled in The Netherlands. I always kept following SI’s path. And was hoping we would meet in 2025. RIP dear Sonallah

I met Sonallah Ibrahim in 1985 during a student trip & an exchange in Café Riche with novelists, glued to our chairs listening to Egypt’s intellectuals. Also met Ra’ouf Mus’ad, now settled in The Netherlands. I always kept following SI’s path. And was hoping we would meet in 2025. RIP dear Sonallah

Montgomery, and as such effectively ended the Axis powers‘ ambitions in North Africa.

the War Cemetery pausing at the graves of the men who fought for peace for future generations, especially those who died in the Battle of El Alamein at the end of October 1942. The battle ended as a decisive victory for the Allied forces specifically the British Eighth Army led by General Bernard -4

Timing : fighting surged back and forth between 1940 and 1942. The objectives on both sides being the control of the Mediterranean, the link with the east through the Suez Canal, the Middle East oil supplies and the supply route to Russia through the Caucasus. We visited the El Alamein Museum and -3

… Western Desert, fought between the Commonwealth forces -with the addition of Free French, Polish and Greek troops- all based in Egypt, and the Axis forces -German and Italian- based in Libya. The battlefield was the 1,000 kilometres of desert between Alexandria in Egypt and Benghazi in Libya -2

In Egypt, many love to spend summer time on the North Coast or Sahel. It is considered that time and place of the year for recharge, being amongst friends, enjoying the exceptional sea water and pleasant weather. We took our time to go back to history and read up on the military campaigns in the -1

Then the Afrikaners escort him into the veld to see her husband’s statue. Verwoerd was PM when Mandela was jailed in 1962. Now Mandela faces an impossible task: he must show respect to Afrikaners, but not to Verwoerd. Arriving at the statue, he finds the perfect line: Well, you made him very small!

His ideal is a South Africa “where we cease to think in terms of colour.” He won’t compromise on that. What he’s doing in Orania is showing his opponents ordinary respect. When Mrs Verwoerd reads out her statement calling for a homeland, she stumbles over the words and he prompts her in Afrikaans -4

and for serving him his beloved Afrikaner koeksisters pastry. Asked how he feels visiting Orania, he replies (referring to May 1990): “We always think that others have horns, before we actually meet them.. I’m not worried about people stating their point of view. I know what my point of view is.” -3

Meeting his political opponents hes confronting the eternal political problem: how can we all get along? He is received in Orania by Betsie Verwoerd, 94-year-old widow of Hendrik Verwoerd, the “architect of apartheid”. At press conference, he thanks Mrs Verwoerd for “a very pleasant conversation” -2

‘The heroes who made me’ @financialtimes.com columnist @simonkuper.bsky.social in the Dutch @vprozomergasten.bsky.social : Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1995, visiting the self-anointed white Afrikaner homeland Orania, which wanted autonomy within the newly Black-ruled country -1

Remarks by Commissioner Šuica at the high-level conference on the two-state solution for Palestine Rountable of Working Group 8: Peace Supporting Package\nExcellencies,\nThe European Union is honoured to lead, with our Arab League partners, the work on the \'Peace Day Effort\'.\nBy working together...

On 28 July Cssr Dubravka Šuica represented the EU at the New York Conference www.un.org/unispal/high... A 7-page Declaration called for an end to the war, offering a comprehensive framework, addressing urgent humanitarian needs, solutions for security &governance in Gaza ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

There are enough (potential) leaders in this world who appreciate the importance of Helsinki and will have the stamina to agree on a set of rules once again in the future. /

of respective security guarantees.

This is not for today and cant be done with leaders who have a total disregard for the need for a mutually agreed code of conduct.

Good this is currently being discussed once again in Helsinki and elsewhere. - 4

borders can be adjusted through ‘mutual consent’ only. Helsinki was violated many times but the essence of thorough and often lengthy negotiations (call it diplomacy) is still the key to resolving differences and such a process will be needed again at some point, to agree on the basic rules -3

countries, and as a way - the only peaceful way - of regulating deeply adversarial relations, in fact opposing world views. One side wanted territory and the other wanted respect for citizens, human rights. Helsinki established that ‘territory can not be taken by military force’, -2

1 August 1975 : I was almost 10, remembering my father clustered to our prehistoric TV watching and commenting on leaders signing up to the Helsinki Final Act -closing three years of negotiations between hostile blocs which in fact started in 1956 -with indeed the help of neutral and non-aligned -1

Diplomacy is the only way to get to peace and security to the Middle East region. The EU will continue engaging with the parties and our partners to find a peaceful solution at the negotiating table.