Europe Day, held on 9 May every year, celebrates peace, solidarity and unity in Europe.

On 24 April, the European Union celebrates the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace. Today, the unprecedented ongoing global pandemic and the high level of our interdependence make all too evident the need for collective solutions.

The EU and its Member States have traditionally been the world’s largest provider of Aid for Trade (€13.5 billion in 2018) and were among the first to react internationally to the pandemic. By the end of 2020, Team Europe – the EU and EU MS acting together – had mobilized over half of the announced €38.5 billion COVID-19 recovery package to support partner countries in the fight against the...

Despite tremendous improvements made in the past century, there are still 152 million children engaged in child labour. Moreover, COVID-19 could possibly reverse years of progress as the world is seeing a rise in child labour for the first time in 20 years. Today the International Year Against the Elimination of Child Labour was launched through an online event, giving stage to a number of 2021...