EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Foreign affairs

For MEPs, Covid-19 pandemic must spur EU to realise its ambition to be a powerful global player

Brussels, 18/06/2020 (Agence Europe)

The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, championed European solidarity with the EU’s most vulnerable partner countries as part of the global response to the new coronavirus, but also in the “fight against disinformation”, during a debate on Thursday 18 June on the repercussions of the pandemic on the EU’s external relations.

Josep Borrell pointed out that more than 35 billion euros had already been mobilised by the EU to help the...