This fact sheet explains the EU’s economic governance framework, including its legal basis, objectives and the main mechanisms used to coordinate and oversee economic and fiscal policies in the EU...
This fact sheet explains how the EU promotes an open economy and supports a multilateral rules-based order, as trade is fundamental for the EU’s prosperity. The EU is a founder...
This fact sheet explains the European Union’s relations with the United States and Canada, which are grounded in a long shared history. All three are members of the G7, an...
This fact sheet explains how the EU’s development policy stresses the importance of trade and focuses on the countries most in need, through schemes that comply with World Trade Organization...
This fact sheet explains how the European Parliament contributes to the EU’s support for democracy around the world, including through election observation, parliamentary capacity-building, mediation, dialogue, support for human rights...
The founding principles of the European Union are liberty, democracy and respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law. The EU aims to build human rights concerns...
This fact sheet explains aquaculture production in the European Union. Aquaculture production has remained relatively stagnant at EU level compared with the rising global rates of farmed seafood production. In...
This fact sheet explains the EU’s common foreign and security policy (CFSP), including its legal foundations, main principles, objectives, key decision-makers and procedures, and main recent issues. It also describes...
This fact sheet explains the evolution of EU policies to combat poverty, social exclusion and discrimination. At the end of the 1990s, combating social exclusion was enshrined as a policy...
This fact sheet explains the EU’s asylum policy. The aim of the EU’s asylum policy is to grant appropriate status to any non-EU national requiring international protection in one of...
