Tag: EU

  • Pledge to keep fighting maritime crime

    Over 150 law enforcement, justice and financial intelligence representatives met to discuss maritime crime High level EU/Interpol meeting pledges to keep fighting maritime crime More than 150 representatives of law enforcement, […]

  • EU Denounces Djibouti attack

    The EU has condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack that targeted a Cafeteria in Djibouti  EU Denounces Djibouti Cafeteria attack The EU has condemned in the strongest terms […]

  • EU to Host Counter Piracy Meeting in New York

    The European Union, this year’s chair of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia European Union to Host Counter Piracy Meeting in New York by Fred Stern […]

  • No Time for Complacency on Piracy

    In 2011, 176 ships were attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. No Time for Complacency on Piracy Maciej Popowski Deputy-Secretary General of the European External Action Service In […]

  • EU gives $3m for shipping security

    The European Union is scaling up its financial support to the EAC to fight maritime crime EU gives $3m for shipping security ARUSHA, Tanzania – The European Union is scaling […]

  • EU needs a new strategy to combat piracy

    In a bid to move the EU away from its current piecemeal action against piracy, the EESC has put forward a comprehensive new strategy. EU needs a new strategy to […]

  • Our fight against piracy must be relentless

    Maria Damanaki, the European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, outlines that the fight against piracy must be relentless at a roundtable in Brussels recently. Damanaki: Our fight against piracy must […]

  • New EU initiative to combat piracy

    A new project which will boost security and the safety of maritime routes across seven African countries in the Gulf of Guinea was announced today. New EU initiative to combat […]

  • The SafeMed II Project

    Harmonising enforcement of maritime standards across North Africa and the Mediterranean. The adage ‘a chain is as strong as its weakest link’ is well applied to the need for harmonised […]

  • EU Assistance to Asia

    As Europe’s growth is contingent on Asia’s prosperity, ensuring unrestricted navigation in Asia’s waterways is thus of the utmost strategic interest to the European Union. Given that Asia’s geopolitical hotspots […]