European Union

UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivers his remarks at the Plenary Session of the European Parliament in Brussels.
UN Photo/Marian Blondeel

UN chief urges European Parliament to support COVID vaccines for all

24 June 2021
Health

The European Union (EU) must use its leverage to ensure people everywhere have access to COVID-19 vaccines, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday. 

 

Young girls wait by a shallow well during a humanitarian mission in drought-affected Garbahaarey, a town in southern Somalia.
UN Photo/David Mutua

Climate crisis: ‘Nowhere near the finish line’ – UN chief 

19 November 2020
Climate and Environment

Pointing to its “pioneering legislation and policies”, on Thursday the UN chief hailed the 27-member European Union (EU) as a “a leader on climate action”, that had shown that it was possible to cut emissions while achieving economic growth. 

Charles Michel (on screen) President of the European Council addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Human rights, multilateralism and battling COVID-19, top focus of European Union

25 September 2020
UN Affairs

The European Union has been at the forefront of international cooperation to defeat “the same common enemy”, COVID-19, the President of the European Council, told the UN General Assembly on Friday.

Donald Tusk, President of the European Council of the European Union, addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

More unity, ‘collective action’ needed to maintain international order, EU leader tells UN Assembly

27 September 2018
UN Affairs

Rules-based international order is under “great strain,” Donald Tusk, President of the European Council of the European Union (EU), told the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, saying that his organization is “fighting intensely” to preserve it.