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Maja, a 27-year-old from a small town in the northeastern Polish region of Podlasie, was neither financially nor emotionally ready for another child when she found out she was pregnant.
With legal abortion in her country not being an option, she contacted a group providing underground postal access to abortion pills and took them at home while breastfeeding her 11-month-old baby.
Another woman, Anita, wanted a child but learned when she was 13 weeks pregnant that due to a congenital defect, her baby would die within a few hours of birth - if not before.
Due to a recent change in Polish law that forbids women from terminating pregnancies even in cases of severe and irreversible fetal defects, the young woman was told to wait until she miscarried.
The preparation of the next extraordinary European Council and the discussion on the coordination of the EU’s response to COVID 19 are the two high points of the General Affairs Council (GAC) meeting to be held via video conference tomorrow, Tuesday, in Brussels.
This meeting will be chaired by the Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ana Paula Zacarias, under the scope of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU.
The Ministers will begin with the preparatory work for the extraordinary European Council, which will be held on 25 May 2021. They will then proceed with a discussion on the state of play regarding the coordination of the EU’s response to COVID-19.
A Ministerial Conference on Migration Flow Management will be held on 11 May next at 09h00 (Lisbon time), organised under the scope of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union
The conference, in hybrid format, will take place in the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, and is one of the main initiatives of the Portuguese Presidency in the migration area, as well as an opportunity for further political dialogue with the countries of North Africa.
Taking part in the conference will be the Ministers for Home Affairs of the Member States of the European Union and Ministers and representatives of partner countries - Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal and Tunisia.