The EU Global Threats programme is one of the European Union’s key initiatives to tackle major security threats around the world: from terrorism, organised crime, cyberattacks, and threats to maritime security, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) risks, and growing security risks linked to climate change.
Through a wide range of projects and facilities, we support partner countries and communities in building stronger institutions, preventing crises and promoting long-term peace and stability. The EU Global Threats programme is managed by the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI), putting EU foreign policy into action.
The EU Global Threats programme covers five key threat areas.
The EU Global Threats programme is promoting peace and stability through multiple projects.
Threats don’t stop at borders. Discover where the EU Global Threats programme is active.
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On 26 April 1986, the Chornobyl disaster released radioactive material across Europe, leaving deep scars on communities and the environment. Yet from this tragedy emerged a critical lesson: CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear) risks know no borders, and only through cooperation can we prevent and prepare for such threats.
Over the past 15 years the EU has turned those lessons into action. Through the EU CBRN Risk Mitigation Centres of Excellence, the EU has built a global network across 63 countries, united by a shared vision: global cooperation, responsible innovation, and adaptive governance.
In the spotlight
Each month, we feature one project from the EU Global Threats programme in our In the Spotlight section. This way, we highlight how EU action impacts people’s lives and translates into meaningful change on the ground.
This month, we’re focusing on EU CRIMARIO III, a multi-regional project strengthening maritime security across the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and beyond. Building on the IORIS information-sharing platform, the project enhances maritime domain awareness, inter-agency cooperation and operational coordination to counter piracy, armed robbery at sea, drug trafficking and other maritime threats.
Event highlight
The European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments, in collaboration with the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and EEAS, co-hosted the event Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in Children and Youthin Brussels.
The event offered a platform to connect research with experiences from the field: it combined insights from RC25 presentations, experiences from young beneficiaries and active participants in PCVE programmes both in Europe and abroad.
In recognition of One Health Day, EU Ambassador to Cambodia visited the Institut Pasteur of Cambodia, a WHO reference laboratory in the country, highlighting their commitment to advance health security
- Threat area
- CBRN Risk Mitigation
- EU CBRN CoE Region
- SEA - South East Asia
Landmark regional workshop in Côte d’Ivoire gathers 10 African partner countries to exchange best practices in the domain. The event featured a simulation exercise at main petroleum storage facility GESTOCI
- Threat area
- CBRN Risk Mitigation
- EU CBRN CoE Region
- AAF - African Atlantic Façade
The capacity-building project is rooted in two EU-supported guidebooks aim to advance policies, recommendations and best practices to bring a CBRN crime from the crime scene to the courtroom
- Threat area
- CBRN Risk Mitigation
- EU CBRN CoE Region
- SEEE - South East and Eastern Europe
EU Foreign Policy Instruments releases booklet with features on the establishment of the first CBRNe African Master's Programme, and the advancing of dual-use export controls systems in Morocco
- Threat area
- CBRN Risk Mitigation
- EU CBRN CoE Region
- NAS - North Africa and Sahel
The upcoming EU CBRN CoE Newsletter will put the spotlight on Women in CBRN. Meet some of the inspiring professionals contributing to CBRN risk mitigation across the globe ahead of the release.
- Threat area
- CBRN Risk Mitigation
- EU CBRN CoE Region
- MIE - Middle East
