{"id":102481,"date":"2021-04-20T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=102481"},"modified":"2021-04-21T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T04:00:03","slug":"eu-council-approves-eus-indo-pacific-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/eu-council-approves-eus-indo-pacific-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Council Approves &#8220;EU&#8217;s Indo-Pacific Strategy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Council of the European Union has approved the EU&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/increasing-importance-of-indo-pacific-for-eu\/\">Indo-Pacific<\/a> Strategy for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About EU Indo-Pacific Strategy:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Indo-Pacific region<\/strong> spans from the east coast of Africa to the Pacific Island States. It has the world&#8217;s two most populous countries, which are also huge economies &#8212; India and China.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim<\/strong>: The strategy aims to contribute to the stability, security, prosperity, and sustainable development of the Indo-Pacific Region. Basis of strategy are the promotion of democracy, rule of law, human rights, and international law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/increasing-importance-of-indo-pacific-for-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Increasing Significance of Indo-Pacific for EU<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Key Features of the Strategy:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Security and Defence: <\/strong>The strategy aims to develop partnerships with the Indo-Pacific countries in the areas of security and defence. Areas include addressing maritime security, malicious cyber activities, emerging technologies, terrorism, and organised crime.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rules-Based Order<\/strong>: The strategy will be based on upholding democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and respect for international law.<\/li>\n<li><strong>On Covid-19: <\/strong>EU will work with countries to mitigate the economic and human effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. It will also ensure an inclusive and sustainable socio-economic recovery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About Council of the European Union:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Council of the European Union <\/strong>was established in 1967. It is one of the Institutions of the European Union(EU) as listed in the Treaty on European Union.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Functions<\/strong>: It is tasked with:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly, Negotiating and adopting EU laws<\/strong> (in most cases together with the European Parliament)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly, Coordinating EU<\/strong> member states&#8217; policies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thirdly, Developing the EU&#8217;s<\/strong> common foreign and security policy,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fourthly, Concluding international agreements<\/strong> and<\/li>\n<li><strong>And Lastly, Adopting the EU budget <\/strong>(together with the European Parliament).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GTT8GH1NN.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Council of the European Union has approved the EU&#8217;s Indo-Pacific Strategy for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. About EU Indo-Pacific Strategy: The Indo-Pacific region spans from the east coast of Africa to the Pacific Island States. It has the world&#8217;s two most populous countries, which are also huge economies &#8212; India&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/eu-council-approves-eus-indo-pacific-strategy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EU Council Approves &#8220;EU&#8217;s Indo-Pacific Strategy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,164,9],"tags":[1333],"class_list":["post-102481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ir_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704756692},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}