Peacekeeping related content 

While the EU wants to change how it deals with Bosnia and Herzegovina, the fragile peace in the country is rapidly deteriorating. For close to 16 years, Bosnia and...

The EU should prepare to lead peacekeeping in a post-Qaddafi Libya. If American and European leaders are correct, it is “game over” for Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi –...

Paper says Eufor unable to deal with serious problems as number of troops set to drop to 1,200 in the autumn. The European Union's peacekeeping force in Bosnia and...

Court says Dutch state is responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslims in 1995. The deaths of three Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica 16 years ago could change the way EU...

Jean-Luc Onkelinx on his role explaining the EU to the UN, and the UN to the EU. It might not have the day-to-day excitement of a peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara or...

The UN's secretary-general and the EU's foreign policy chief have similar predecessors, styles and priorities – and a common need to find a voice. If Catherine Ashton...

The EU needs to weigh more carefully its decisions to engage in military operations. For the past year, European officials have debated if and how the EU should engage...

Unresolved questions could delay launch of new mission. The foreign ministers of the EU's 27 member states agreed today to set up a new EU mission in Uganda to train Somali...

Valentin Inzko says the EU should be prepared to maintain peacekeepers in Bosnia. Valentin Inzko, the EU's special representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, has warned...

European states face a common, and interconnected, dilemma at the UN and in NATO – how to project force credibly. While Anders Fogh Rasmussen was spending his first day in...

Europe's military is beating the retreat just as the world's emerging powers are expanding their presence – an early sign perhaps of a new international order. Whenever...

EU may look to strengthen UN peacekeeping force instead. The Dutch and Swedish foreign ministers have said the EU is very unlikely to commit a peacekeeping force this year...

The bloodshed in Congo may mark the end of European military interventions in Africa; the EU now has to work out how better to integrate its efforts with those of the UN and...

As the situation in Congo worsens, the EU must consider reinforcing the UN peacekeeping mission. The last time that the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in the...

Congo has been the second most important testing ground for the European Security and Defence Policy; like the Congolese, the EU needs a long-lasting peacekeeping presence in...

Russia to provide four helicopters to help Eufor in Chad; negotiations were “very professional”. Russia will supply the EU with four transport helicopters to help...

UN may increase the number of peacekeepers in Chad and extend their reach. While the United Nations deliberates reinforcing its mission in Chad and the Central African...

European Parliament committee presses for the deployment of peacekeepers, as Georgia presses EU to take punitive steps against Russia. The chairman of the European...

Japan shares many of the EU's foreign defence and peacekeeping interests. But the US still holds sway in Japan's own backyard. Japan's governments have come and gone, but...

European politicians are being presented with stark practical questions about the role of soldiers in modern peace-keeping and about the relative status of soldiers and...