South Asia
EU Fact Sheets
01-06-2017
Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent, of great geostrategic importance to the EU. The EU is forging closer ties with countries in South Asia. India is now a strategic partner of the EU. The EU has security concerns in the region, such as the Kashmir conflict and Afghanistan. The EU is a strong economic player and major development and aid donor, working to foster institution-building, democracy, good governance and human rights.
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- Afghanistan
- Asia and Oceania
- common commercial policy
- common foreign and security policy
- cooperation policy
- cooperation policy
- development policy
- economic geography
- economic policy
- ECONOMICS
- EU relations
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- extra-European organisations
- GEOGRAPHY
- human rights
- India
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- LAW
- Pakistan
- political situation
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- rights and freedoms
- South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
- Sri Lanka
- TRADE
- trade policy