Europe on threshold of new era

As we gain experience and expertise we are mounting increasingly ambitious operations.

Our success with Operation Artemis, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the EU intervened in 2003 after violent clashes and a humanitarian crisis in Bunia, helped prepare us to mount our EUFOR operation in Chad and the Central African Republic and EUNAVFOR Somalia, which South Africa has expressed an interest in joining.

We already have a mission in the West Bank helping to build up the Palestinian civil police and criminal justice system.

In Somalia, we are considering security-sector reform measures to complement EUNAVFOR Somalia and the humanitarian aid and political support that we are already providing.

Solana is the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).