European External Action Service (EEAS)

OPINION: A New European Foreign Policy in an Age of Anxiety

By Shada Islam
The appointment of Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini as the new European Union foreign policy chief offers the opportunity for an overhaul of EU foreign and security policy.

New Operation Could Hide Major Shift in Europe’s Immigration Control Policy

By Apostolis Fotiadis
‘Mare Nostrum’ – the largest search and rescue immigration operation ever carried out in the Mediterranean Sea – has become an issue of bitter brinkmanship between human rights groups and anti-immigrant lobbies.