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  • Foreign affairs and security policy

    What the Commission is doing

    Objectives

    • Contribute to peacekeeping on a global scale
    • Promote democracy and defend human rights in developing and neighbouring countries
    • Support global security by police and military actions around the world
    • Be the world-leading actor in the fight against climate change
    • Increase global trade

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    Key initiatives

    The EU promotes and defends human rights and democracy across the world, as well as within its own borders