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European Council president Charles Michel, Philippine president Bongbong Marcos, and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, December 2022. The European Union and the Philippines are coming up with a more comprehensive bilateral agreement that will further strengthen the dialogue, cooperation and action in their partnership, specifically the issue of migration.
President Bongbong Marcos and EU President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen during the latter's official visit to the Philippines, July 31, 2023 President Rodrigo Duterte shares a light moment with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad after the latter was accorded arrival honors at the Malacañang Palace on March 7, 2019
The member states of the European Union are aligned in their foreign policy on many issues. The EU is the world's largest economic union, customs union and donor of humanitarian and development assistance and thus has an extensive network of delegations around the world mainly operating in the framework of External Relations, for which the European Commission is the main decision body.
The European Community Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) was established in 1992 by the Second Delors Commission. With the European Community being abolished in 2009, the office began to be known as the Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department of the European Commission or European Union, but kept its ECHO abbreviation.
It operates under the authority of the European Commissioner for International Partnerships, currently Jozef Síkela. The official development assistance (ODA) disbursed by the European Commission increased in 2022 (USD 23.1 billion), mostly due to support to Ukraine, some of which was in the form of loans.
In June 2022, the European Commission published a document explaining the motivation for the rule. The two stated goals of the directive were to save consumers $258 million a year "on unnecessary ...
Since 2010, the Ambassador of the European Union, now officially accredited as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, is appointed by the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission, following a proposal by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
The Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) is an Asian–European political dialogue forum to enhance relations and various forms of cooperation between its partners.It was officially established on 1 March 1996 at the 1st ASEM Summit (ASEM1) in Bangkok, Thailand, by the then 15 Member States of the European Union (EU) and the European Commission, the then 7 Member States of the Association of Southeast ...