At a video conference on Monday, EU education ministers held a debate on the goals and priorities of the cooperation in education and training among Member States in order to achieve a European Education Area by 2025.

The main challenges young people and youth organisations face during the Covid-19 pandemic were on the focus during the video conference of youth ministers that took place on Monday. 

European Union chief Charles Michel is inviting Joe Biden once he is US president to come visit and patch up trans-Atlantic relations that have suffered over the past four years under President Donald Trump.

Among the main topics at the video conference of defence ministers that took place on Friday was the development of the Strategic Compass to strengthen EU security and defence. They exchanged views about the first completed step in this process: the threat analysis.

The EU leaders’ corona coordination VTC on Thursday evening, convened by European Council President Charles Michel, commenced with a 30-minute discussion on the MFF and the recovery fund crisis. Three countries – Hungary, Poland and Slovenia strongly opposed tying up allocation of funds under these instruments to a wide-ranging rule of law conditionality regime.

On Thursday evening EU leaders will discuss the situation with the Covid-19 and the need to further reinforce the coordination in fighting the virus. The informal leaders’ video conference was convened by Charles Michel, President of the European Council. 

Enlargement was one of the items on the agenda during the video conference of European affairs ministers on 17 November. As expected, Sofia followed a firm line and did not give Skopje the long-awaited greenlight to start EU accession talks.

European Union ministers meeting this week to discuss the future of the continent’s defence will say the lesson has been learned: Europe needs to be strong enough to fight on its own.

At a video conference on Friday EU home affairs ministers discussed how to further strengthen their efforts to fight terrorism and also debated on different aspects of the pact on migration and asylum. “We affirm our unshakeable unity and solidarity in the fight against all forms of terrorism”, they said in a statement on the recent attacks in Europe.

The European Union said Monday it would impose tariffs on up to $4 billion worth of US goods and services over illegal aid for plane maker Boeing - but expressed hope that trade ties would improve once President Donald Trump leaves office.