The Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) – a multilateral counter-terrorism platform to strengthen civilian efforts to counter and prevent terrorist threats and violent extremism – held its 22nd Coordinating Committee meeting and 13th ministerial meeting in New York on 18 and 20 September under the co-chairmanship of the European Union and Egypt. European Commission Vice-President Josep Borrell emphasized three crucial […]
Live now from the UN Counter-Terrorism Week side-event “Launch of the Compendium of Good Practices for Measuring Results in Counter-Terrorism and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: A Joint EU–UN Publication”. Claudia Wallner and Georgia Holmer, respectively Research Fellow and Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, are presenting a summary of the Compendium […]
The Council today approved conclusions on the priorities of the European Union in United Nations Human Rights fora in 2024. In its Conclusions, the Council reaffirms the EU’s commitment to human rights, multilateralism and the international criminal justice system in the current fraught international environment marked by armed conflict, authoritarianism, disinformation and a pushback against gender equality. In the year of […]
The European Union assumed the co-Chair of the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) for the next two years. HR/VP Josep Borrell officially took over the co-Chair from Canada at the GCTF Ministerial Meeting in New York, in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly. The EU will work closely with Morocco as its co-Chair until […]
The Council today renewed, with no changes, the so-called EU terrorist list, which sets out persons, groups and entities subject to restrictive measures with a view to combatting terrorism. The 13 persons and 21 groups and entities on the list are subject to the freezing of their funds and other financial assets in the EU. […]
The EU and its member states are working together to prevent radicalisation in Europe. Radicalisation is not a new phenomenon, but it has become a more serious threat in recent years, especially due to the development of new technologies and the growing use of the internet and social media. On 29 April 2021, the EU […]
