Diplomacy & Crisis News

On Thursday 2 July, the Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a workshop on 'A new EU approach to the Sahel region'. The event aims to enrich the EP's debate and oversight of the 2025 'renewed' EU approach for the Sahel region, focusing on its central part (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger).
The workshop will provide current insights into the rapidly evolving challenges, such as security threats, political instability, and humanitarian crises, and foreign interference in a geopolitically challenging environment, following a recent wave of military coups d'état, violent jihadism and separatism.Prof. Nina Wilén will present a study on the topic, including policy options for EU cooperation with the region, in support of regional stability, peace, good governance and potentially improved relations. A debate between her and MEPs, representatives of other EU institutions, and other experts will follow suit.
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The Islamic Republic has survived. Now comes the hard part.

The United States is racing ahead where Europe, China, and India struggle.

On 24 June, Committee on Foreign Affairs will host its Interparliamentary Committee Meeting on enlargement. More than 50 members of national parliaments from the EU Member States and enlargement countries will be present to exchange views with AFET members. There will be two sessions, focusing on seizing the momentum in the enlargement process and the role of parliaments in progressing EU accession.
Mathieu Bousquet (DG ENEST, European Commission) and Joachim Koops (Global Governance Institute and Leiden University) will deliver keynote speeches in the respective sessions.
Location : ANTALL (4Q2)
Draft programme
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On 24 June, Committee on Foreign Affairs will host its Interparliamentary Committee Meeting on enlargement. More than 50 members of national parliaments from the EU Member States and enlargement countries will be present to exchange views with AFET members. There will be two sessions, focusing on seizing the momentum in the enlargement process and the role of parliaments in progressing EU accession.
Mathieu Bousquet (DG ENEST, European Commission) and Joachim Koops (Global Governance Institute and Leiden University) will deliver keynote speeches in the respective sessions.
Meetings with National Parliaments
ICM Draft programme
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The pain from their injuries hasn’t gone away. Meanwhile, they face challenges in earning a livelihood.

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Next ordinary AFET committee meeting will be held on:

Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 June 2026, room ANTALL 4Q2, Brussels

Meetings are webstreamed with the exception of agenda items held "in camera".

AFET - DROI calendar of meetings 2026
Meeting documents
Webstreaming
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Amikor a lyoni Gestapo egykori főnökét kiadatása után életfogytiglani börtönre ítélték 1987-ben, a krónikák szerint Párizs és más francia nagyvárosok lesajnált külső kerületeiben a következő falfirka jelent meg az utcákon: "Barbie Franciaországban van! Massu mikor lesz majd Algériában?" A csipkelődő kedvű elkövetők, akik minden bizonnyal algériai származású helyi lakosok voltak - első vagy második generációs bevándorlók -, ugyanarra a körülményre hívták fel a figyelmet, mint Klaus Barbie (egyébként harcos kommunista) védőügyvédje: a véres kezű SS-százados módszerei lényegileg semmiben nem tértek el azoktól, melyeket bő egy évtizeddel később Algírban alkalmazott az ejtőernyős tábornok a függetlenségi háború idején.

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