1. From the blog
   

   Sahel: pour gagner la guerre, il faut maintenant gagner la paix

   21/02/2021- HR/VP blog – Les 15 et 16 février se sont réunis les Sommets du G5 Sahel puis de Pau+1 entre le G5 Sahel et ses partenaires internationaux. Le constat est clair: les gains militaires engrangés ne seront durables que s’ils sont accompagnés du retour de l’Etat et de ses services de base.

   Author: Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission - Publication date: 21/02/2021

2. News
   

   Building multilateralism for the 21st Century

   17/02/2021 – HR/VP Blog – Why do we need to invest in multilateralism? Because it works. Today we have set out what the EU can do to strengthen and modernise the global system of rules and institutions on which we all depend.

   Author: Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission - Publication date: 17/02/2021

3. News stories
   

   A stronger multilateralism approach to face new challenges together

   Our times are marked by major geopolitical and economic power shifts, with increasingly confrontational and unilateralist relations between major powers. Yet growing global challenges call for more multilateral governance and rules-based international cooperation. The COVID-19 crisis exemplifies the

   Author: Strategic Communications - Publication date: 17/02/2021

4. News stories
   

   Access to education and reintegration, key to support children in armed conflicts

   “Children have a key role to play in building a present and a future where peace will prevail. It is our responsibility to enable them to be such agents of change”, says EU-UN statement on International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers

   Author: Strategic Communications - Publication date: 12/02/2021

5. News stories
   

   Female genital mutilation is a crime. Nothing justifies it. No one should stay silent.

   In some parts of the world, girls under 18 are circumcised and assumed ready for marriage. Ester recalls that she was very excited and agreed to this “BUT when the day came and already cut, oh God I was like half dead,” she cried. Female genital mutilation is a crime and a violation of human rights.

   Author: Strategic Communications - Publication date: 06/02/2021

6. From the blog
   

   After Brexit, how can the EU and UK best cooperate on foreign policy?

   30/01/2021 – HR/VP Blog – On 1 January 2021, Brexit took full effect, with the UK becoming a ‘third country’. While the public debate has focused on the economic fallout, we also need to decide how the EU and the UK can cooperate on foreign and security policy. On 25 January, EU Foreign Ministers

   Author: Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission - Publication date: 29/01/2021

7. Statements by the HR/VP

   Holocaust Remembrance Day: Statement by High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell

   Holocaust survivor and Italian writer Primo Levi – the first to make a detailed written recollection of the atrocities that happened in Auschwitz – said: “We cannot understand [Fascism], but we can and must understand from where it springs, and we must be on our guard. Because what happened can

   Author: EEAS Press Team - Publication date: 26/01/2021

8. From the blog
   

   Taking action to protect our economic sovereignty

   25/01/2021- HR/VP blog – Last week, at the European Commission, we adopted a new strategy to strengthen the international role of the euro and increase our resilience to extraterritorial unilateral sanctions. The fields of finance and economics are increasingly used as tools in international

   Author: Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission - Publication date: 26/01/2021

9. News stories
   

   Call for urgent global action to mitigate climate crisis- the external dimension of the European Green Deal

   From growing onions in the sand, beekeeping to preserve wildlife, building homes from plastic bottles, to solar parks and other initiatives to switch to green: such concrete actions, big or small, help to mitigate climate change. Yet there is a need for drastic action. Climate action is at the heart

   Author: Strategic Communications - Publication date: 25/01/2021

10. From the blog
    

    We need humanitarian access to Tigray as urgent first step towards peace in Ethiopia

    15/01/2021 – HR/VP Blog – For more than two months, conflict has been raging in the Tigray region in Ethiopia. The situation is desperate for the local population and the conflict is unsettling dynamics both within Ethiopia and the whole region. I have passed a clear message to the Ethiopian

    Author: Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission - Publication date: 15/01/2021

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