EU in the world Flashcards
ARGUS (crisis management)
General rapid alert system
which EU MS are not part of NATO?
AT, CY, IE, MT, (SE - applied already)
Global health strategy
November 2022
Brings together the Gobal Gateaway and the external dimension of the European health Union
Priorities:
- better health and well-being (including SGDs)
- advance universal health coverage
- combating threats, including pandemics
Towards a comprehensive strategy with Africa
March 2020 (replacing the 2007 strategy)
JOINT COM and HR/VP
Five partnerships for:
- green transition and energy access
- digital transformation
- sustainable growth and jobs
- peace and government
- migration and mobility
10 actions.
Followed by a Joint vision for 2030 at the 6th EU - AU Summit in 2022
EU action plan on human rights and democracy 2020 - 2024
March 2020 - joint COM and HR/VP
Five lines of actions:
- Protecting and empowering individuals
- Building resilient, inclusive and democratic societies
- Promoting a global system for human rights and democracy
- Bea technologies: opportunities and challenges
- Delivering by working together
Gender action plan III (GAP III)
November 2020 - joint COM and HR/VP
First GAP in 2010
Reflects the Gender equality strategy
Five pillars:
- 85% of external relation actions to contribute to gender equality by 2025
- Competition with MSs and partners at multilateral, regional and country level
- Accelerate progress in key thematic areas:
- ending gender-based violence
- universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights
- economic and social empowerment
- equal participation in public life
- implement the Women, peace and security agenda (UN)
- include women in the green and digital transformation
- Lead by example
- Measure results
Principles of humanitarian action
- humanity: the human that is suffering is to be addressed wherever is found with particular attention to the most vulnerable
- neutrality: not favour any side in an armed coflit
- impartiality: provided on the basis of needs without discrimination
- independence: from political, economic, military or other objectives
Set out in international law and endorsed by 2 UNGA resolutions
Samoa agreement
Signed on 15 November 2023 in Samoa
(1963 Yaoundé convention -> 1975 Lomé convention -> 2000 Cotonou agreement)
Partnership agreement with 79 counties: 48 African, 16 Caribbean and 15 Pacific countries.
Priority areas:
- human rights and democracy
- peace and security
- development
- migration and mobility
- climate change
- economic growth
Main changes:
- annex on Return and Readmission (migration)
- three regional protocols
EU - CELAC summit 2023
3rd summit, last one in 2015
Agreed to meet each other year and adopted both a declaration and a roadmap 2023-25.
CELAC was founded in 2010 and brings together 33 Latin American and Caribbean states.
Declaration on the future of the internet ( April 2022)
US-EU led international declaration
Five key principles:
- Protection for human rights and fundamental freedoms in the online environment
- A global internet
- Inclusive and affordable access to the internet
- Trust in the digital ecosystem
- Multi-stakeholder governance
EU and NATO
Berlin plus (signed in December 2002 and adopted in March 2003): EU access to NATO capabilities for its own operations
Three joint declarations in 2016, 2018, and 2023
EU UN spotlight initiative
To combat violence against women and girls
Cotonou Agreement
“EU-ACP Partnership Agreement”
signed in 2000 and revised in 2017
The Cotonou Agreement is the backbone of the partnership between the European Union (EU), EU Member States and 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
It aims to contribute to the eradication of poverty, to support the sustainable economic, cultural and social development of the partner countries and to help the progressive integration of their respective economies into the world economy.
Yaounde convention
1963
the EEC and the 18 Associated African States and Madagascar (AASM) sign the first convention, valid for a period of five years, confirming the association between Europe and Africa on the basis of free trade and financial aid from the Six.
EEA agreement
signed in 1994 by 12 EU countries and 6 EFTA countries: Austria, Finland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, although Switzerland later chose to reject the agreement.
It created a zone in which there is free movement of people, services, goods and capital across 31 European countries.
