Foreign affairs

Instrument for Stability and Peace (ISP)

Combatting drug traffic in West Africa, mediating inter-community tensions in Lebanon, empowering women candidates for the...

EU policies in favour of human rights defenders

Human rights defenders (HRDs) are persons who act alone or with others to promote or protect human rights by peaceful...

European External Action Service

The cultural dimension of the EU's external relations

The EU Strategy for Central Asia

In 2007 the EU began implementing a Strategy for Central Asia, covering Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and...

Recommendation on the mandate of the EU Special Representative for Human Rights

In July 2012, the European External Action Service (EEAS) appointed a new Special Representative for Human Rights (EUSR for...

The situation in Gaza

Prompted by renewed hostilities and rocket attacks between Israel and the Palestinian territories, Parliament decided to...

Digital Technology in EU Foreign Policy

Internet access plays such an important role in our everyday lives that several EU Member States have identified it as a...

The negotiations of the new EU-Russia Agreement

The old Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between EU and Russia expired in 2007, 10 years after its signature.

The situation in Ukraine

Most international observers described Ukraine's parliamentary elections in 2012 as unfair because opposition leaders were...

The EU's human rights strategy

When Catherine Ashton took office as the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, one of her first...