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The announcement was made following a three-day visit to Addis Ababa by the EU's International Partnerships Commissioner Jozef Síkela who announced a series of other funding commitments including €140m in restored budget support for Ethiopia which had been halted ever since the civil war in Tigray started in 2020 and €100m for new health infrastructure projects...
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Promises by the US and EU's International Partnerships Commissioner Jozef Síkela to ‘diversify energy supply chains while creating local jobs' are yet to materialise...
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The row emerged during the three-hour hearing in the European Parliament for former Czech Trade Minister Jozef Síkela who has been nominated to replace Finland's Jutta Urpilainen as Commissioner for International Partnerships...
In written responses to the European Parliament's development committee Jozef Síkela the EU's incoming Commissioner for International Partnerships dismissed the significance of the BRICS expansion arguing that ‘the group's recent “enlargement” has to date mainly been a communication exercise'...
Among the surprise appointments was Czech trade and industry minister Jozef Síkela who had been tipped for the energy file being appointed to replace Finnish Social Democrat Jutta Urpilainen as Commissioner for International Partnerships...