Promoting a sovereign Europe The European Union (EU), of which France is one of the founding members, is a priority of French foreign policy. France is the host country of the Council of Europe: the leading organisation defending human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe. At the Ministry, the Directorate of the European Union deals with external and internal relations and with monitoring institutional issues. European Political Community Proposed by the French President on 9 May 2022 at the closing ceremony of the Conference on the Future of Europe, the European Political Community... Defence Europe France advocates a significantly stronger Defence Europe, as reflected in various frameworks (bilateral and “plurilateral” cooperation between... France and the European Union The European Union (EU), which now has 27 Member States, stems from the European Economic Community (EEC) created in 1957. This organization has no... War in Ukraine: France’s diplomatic action On 24 February 2022, 8 years after the illegal annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014, the Russian...