Third countries and international relations

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The European Union is a main actor on the political and economic stage.

It affirms its identity internationally through the implementation of a foreign and security policy and through bilateral and multilateral co-operation. It confirms its solidarity with other countries and regions of the world through its development policy and by providing large-scale humanitarian assistance.

First goods and services exporter in the world, the European Union also contributes to a harmonious development of world trade through the progressive abolition of barriers to international exchanges.

Economic impacts in this area are related chiefly to trade and to foreign and development policy, and should be understood both as impacts internal to the European environment and as impacts affecting the external partners of such policies.

According to the Impact Assessment Guidelines of the European Commission, the following key questions are of particular importance when examining the impacts of policy initiatives on third countries and international relations:

• Evaluating impact on EU trade policy
• Evaluating impact on EU forgein/development policy
• Evaluating impact on third countries
• Evaluating impact on different types of coutries

See also

• IA TOOLS
• European Commision
• World Trade Organization
• United Nations Development Programme

References

This text is for information only and is not designed to interpret or replace any reference documents. The text is partially adapted from:

European Commission: The European Union in the World