COMMON FOREIGN SECURITY POLICY

How does the EU deal with the existence of weapons in Europe? Talking about control of Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Arms Export Control, EU focuses on in three areas of action: weapons of mass destruction (WMD), conventional weapons and Security and sustainability in outer space. The way of aboard these areas is through international agreements and treaties, for example: ·          Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ·          Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) ·          Biological & Toxin Weapons Conventions (BTWC) ·          Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) ·          The Hague Code of Conduct against missile proliferation (HCoC) ·          Arms trade treaty (ATT) ·          Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) ·          UN Programme of Action on Small Arms (PoA) ·          UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (UNSCR 1540) ·          Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) ·          Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terr

¿How act EU against terrorism? The terrorist threat is increasingly diffuse and diverse. It becomes a very difficult way to fight. For this, the EU focuses on responses against terrorism in a special way. Its action plan focuses mainly on: Foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, Horn of Africa / Yemen, Boko Haram in West Africa and threats to security in South and Southeast Asia. With the increasing threat of the ISIS group, the EU has tried to join forces among the other countries through cooperation, not only among the EU countries themselves, but also to maintain policies of joint action among the other countries. This is done through the EEAS. European Union External Action maintains some objectives in the fight against terrorism, which are: •         Establishment of strategies and action plans against terrorism, in the aforementioned countries. •         EU promotes mainstreaming of Counter Terrorism into EU's foreign policy and addressing the nexus of development