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Service for Foreign Policy Instruments

What we do

We are putting European Union foreign policy into action as part of a comprehensive geopolitical vision, in line with the Union’s foreign policy priorities. We act as first responder to foreign policy needs and opportunities in the following areas:

Common foreign and security policy

Conflict prevention, peace and stability

Recovery and peacebuilding assessments, post-disaster needs assessments and COVID recovery needs assessments

European Peace Facility

Advancing EU interests and values in the world

Election observation

The Kimberley Process, the fight against ‘conflict diamonds’

Anti-torture measures