European External Action Service

Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian hospitals ‘are war crimes’

Responding to the horrific scenes from the Russian missile strike on Kyiv's Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital, the European Cancer Organisation has issued the following statement: Russia’s military...

EU diplomatic arm must provide better support to Union ‘embassies’ abroad

Kazakhstan was the first central Asian tiger

The EU has been urged to continue to “deepen and widen” its cooperation with Kazakhstan in the coming years. The call was made at a conference...

European Parliament to host a high-level event on #ElectionObservation

A conference on 'The future of international election observation' will be held in the European Parliament, in Brussels, on 10-11 October. Since 2000, the European Union...

#Budget management: Commission and Parliament spending for 2014 approved

The European Commission managed its 2014 EU budget funds according to the rules, so Parliament should grant it a 'discharge' (i.e. approval), for that year, the...

Danjean: 'EU represents a good level to come up with an efficient common approach'

Events in Ukraine have underlined the relevance of a common and coherent EU external policy. The European External Action Service (EAAS) was created as a diplomatic...

EU Auditors: Assistance to Central Asia well planned but implementation slow and variable

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has published today (14 January) a Special Report (13/2013), European Union development Assistance to Central Asia. The ECA examined how...