At the EU Heads of Missions meeting at Villa Europa in Rome this week, saw the participation of the WFP Deputy Executive Director, Carl Skau. His participation offered an open and in depth exchange of views on the current challenges for food security & humanitarian aid in the many crisis hotspots in the world, and in particular on the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza. We reiterated the EU’s commitment to the United Nations, to WFP and to international humanitarian law. The UN80 process was also on our agenda. We then prepared among EU Heads of Missions the forthcoming FAO Conference and the Ministerial Meeting between the EU and the African Union in Rome.