European Union

Josep Borrell, Euopean Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, addresses Security Council members in connection with the Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and sub-regional organizations.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Security Council: Paralysis and ‘political infighting’ must end, to boost COVID-19 fight: EU foreign affairs chief

28 May 2020
Peace and Security

 The global coronavirus pandemic is testing the multilateral system like never before and the Security Council must stop the “infighting”, and step up to the challenge, the European Union’s foreign policy chief told the 15-member body on Thursday.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres briefs the media on the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

News in Brief 4 May 2020

4 May 2020
News in Brief
  • None of us is safe until we all are, says UN chief at EU push to end COVID
  • Air bridge operation gets underway for ‘most fragile’ countries
  • Welcome for Sudan’s decision to ban female genital mutilation
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A quick smile from one of the 183 refugees resettled, originating in Sudan and the Central African Republic, prepares for his new life in France.
IOM

Protecting refugees in Europe: UNHCR calls for a ‘year of change’

9 January 2020
Migrants and Refugees

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is calling on the European Union (EU) to make 2020 “the year of change for robust refugee protection”. On Thursday, the agency issued a set of new recommendations, as Croatia and German preside over the EU Council during the next 12 months.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres receives the Charlemagne Prize in Aachen, Germany on 30 May 2019.
UNFCCC/James Dowson

A ‘strong and united Europe’ has never been more needed, declares UN chief Guterres

30 May 2019
Peace and Security

With the post-world war international institutions eroded and under threat, a “strong and united Europe” standing alongside the United Nations, has never been more essential, said UN chief António Guterres in Germany on Thursday.

Vladimir Voronkov (left), Under-Secretary-General of UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, and Pedro Serrano, Deputy Secretary General of the European External Action Service, sign the United Nations-European Union framework on counter-terrorism cooperation.
UN Photo/Win Khine

Global counter-terrorism situation remains ‘very worrying,’ says senior official as UN-EU sign new agreement

24 April 2019
Interviews

In the second annual UN-EU Counter-Terrorism Leaders’ Dialogue held at the United Nations in New York, senior officials from the UN counter-terrorism office and the EU’s security and defense section, exchanged views on common priorities and signed a framework agreement to promote “a new spirit of practical collaboration” to strengthen collaboration and have more of an impact in countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Pedro Serrano is Deputy Secretary General for Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and Crisis Response at the European External Action Service (EEAS). He spoke to UN News's Jordi Trujols, on the sidelines of Wednesday’s meeting about the new agreement, and how the United Nations and the EU will work more closely to fight terrorism.

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Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaking in the Security Council.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Europe and UN form bulwark against ‘might makes right’ worldview, EU foreign affairs chief tells Security Council

12 March 2019
Peace and Security

“The concept of global governance risks being replaced by the old law that ‘might makes right’”, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, told the Security Council on Tuesday, during a meeting looking at on-going cooperation between the UN and the 28-member body.

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.

A young child holds a toy as she seeks shelter with other Afghan refugees from very cold, wet weather conditions at the Tabanovce reception centre for refugees in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia after being refused entry into Serbia. February 2016.
UNICEF/Tomislav Georgiev

EU migration deal welcomed by UN agencies

29 June 2018
Migrants and Refugees

UN humanitarian agencies on Friday broadly welcomed a freshly-inked deal on migration by European Union leaders which calls for more Member States to take responsibility within their borders for those in need of protection, amid a hardening stance by some since 2015.

Ann Mari May, Economics Professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and David Kucera, Senior Economist at ILO's Employment Policy Department.
courtesy of Ann Mari May. Photo: Ave Kukuli

The economics of gender balance

16 March 2018
UN Gender Focus

As women fight for gender parity in and out of the workforce a new study shows that in most of Europe, women are slowly catching up to men.

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European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica.
Alban Mendes de Leon

UN Gender Focus: fighting violence against women, new UN gender parity strategy and empowering women economically

20 September 2017
UN Gender Focus

Gender equality a “driver” in fighting violence against women and girls

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