European Council President Charles Michel met on Tuesday Georgia's political leaders in Tbilisi, following the signing of an agreement the day before between the ruling party and several opposition parties. The deal was proposed by the EUCO President after several weeks of mediation.

Following the EU foreign affairs ministers informal video conference, EU High Representative Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell stated that EU stands in unity and solidarity with the Czech Republic on the expulsion of 18 Russian diplomats over the 2014 explosion on an ammunition depot.

On Monday, EU foreign affairs ministers started their informal video conference. They will be briefed by the High Representative Josep Borrell on current affairs, reviewing a number of recent developments and upcoming events. 

The Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) reached an agreement Thursday evening on how many jabs each EU Member State will receive in the second quarter of the year from the 10 million BioNTech-Pfizer accelerated doses. The proposal was put forward by the Portuguese Presidency of the Council.

After almost nine hours of discussions during their video conference on Thursday, EU leaders made decisions on a long list of issues. Against the backdrop of a new sharp rise in infections and a shortage of vaccines across Europe, the most important topic was ensuring the supply of Covid-19 jabs and their equitable distribution among Member States.

In the context of the raging third Covid wave in many countries of the Union, the EU leaders’ video conference started on Thursday afternoon with taking stock of the epidemiological situation. Later in the evening, the heads of state and government will also discuss transatlantic relations together with US President Joe Biden. 

Upon the invitation of European Council President Charles Michel, US President Joe Biden will join the EU summit via videoconference on Thursday evening. He will talk with EU leaders on EU-US future cooperation.

European Council President has decided the next summit, scheduled for 25 and 26 March, to be held via videoconference. On Sunday morning in a tweet Barend Leyts, Spokesperson for the EUCO President, announced this change of the format pointing out as a reason “the surge of Covid-19 cases in Member States”.

At their informal meeting, EU economic and finance ministers discussed among other topics the state of play with the national recovery and resilience plans, which Member States are drafting as to benefit in loans and grants by the €672.5bn Recovery and Resilience Facility.

During their ‘Security and Defence’ session at the video conference on Friday, the EU leaders expressed their will to remain committed to the Strategic Agenda 2019-2024,that is increasing the EU’s capacity to act autonomously. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg exchange with them views on the cooperation between EU and the Alliance.