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Diplomatic missions of the European Union

The member states of the European Union are aligned in their foreign policy on many issues. The EU is the world's largest economic union, customs union and donor of humanitarian and development assistance and thus has an extensive network of delegations around the world mainly operating in the framework of External Relations, for which the European Commission is the main decision body. The EU also represents shared political and security viewpoints held by its member states, as articulated in the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Not to be confused with List of military and civilian missions of the European Union.

The EU's predecessor, the European Coal and Steel Community, opened its first mission in London in 1955, after three years non-EU countries began to accredit their missions in Brussels to the Community. The US had been a fervent supporter of the ECSC's efforts from the beginning, and Secretary of State Dean Acheson sent Jean Monnet a dispatch in the name of President Truman confirming full US diplomatic recognition of the ECSC. A US ambassador to the ECSC was accredited soon thereafter, and he headed the second overseas mission to establish diplomatic relations with the Community institutions.[1]


The number of delegates began to rise in the 1960s following the merging of the executive institutions of the three European Communities into a single Commission. Until recently some states had reservations accepting that EU delegations held the full status of a diplomatic mission. Article 20 of the Maastricht Treaty requires the Delegations and the Member States' diplomatic missions to "co-operate in ensuring that the common positions and joint actions adopted by the Council are complied with and implemented".


Management of the EU External Relations is conducted by the European External Action Service which reports to the High Representative for Foreign Affairs. Delegates are generally sent only to capital cities and cities hosting multilateral bodies.


The EU missions work separately from the work of the missions of its member states, however in some circumstances it may share resources and facilities. In Abuja, the EU mission shares its premises with a number of member states.[2] The European Commission also maintains representation in each of the member states.[3] For details on diplomatic representation, see Foreign relations of the European Union#Diplomatic representation.

 

Tirana

 

Yerevan

 

Baku

 

Minsk

 

Sarajevo

 

Tbilisi

 

Reykjavík

 

Pristina

 

Chișinău

 

Podgorica

 

Skopje

 

Oslo

 

Moscow

 

Belgrade

 

Bern

 

Ankara

 

Kyiv

 

London

 

Algiers

 

Luanda

 

Cotonou

 

Gaborone

 

Ouagadougou

 

Bujumbura

 

Yaoundé

 

Praia

 

Bangui

 

N'Djamena

 

[7]

 

Brazzaville

 

Kinshasa

 

Djibouti

 

Cairo

 

Asmara

 

[8]

 

Addis Ababa

 

Libreville

 

Banjul

 

Accra

 

Conakry

 

Bissau

 

Abidjan

 

Nairobi

 

Maseru

 

Monrovia

 

Tripoli

 

Antananarivo

 

Lilongwe

 

Bamako

 

Nouakchott

 

Port Louis

 

Rabat

 

Maputo

 

Windhoek

 

Niamey

 

Abuja

 

Kigali

 

Dakar

 

Freetown

 

Mogadishu

 

Pretoria

 

[9]

 

Khartoum

 

Dar es Salaam

 

Lomé

 

Tunis

 

Kampala

 

Lusaka

 

Harare

 

Buenos Aires

 

Nassau

 

Bridgetown

 

Belmopan

 

La Paz

 

Brasília

 

Ottawa

 

Santiago de Chile

 

San Jose

 

Bogotá

 

Havana

 

Santo Domingo

 

Quito

 

San Salvador

 

Ciudad de Guatemala

 

Georgetown

 

Port-au-Prince

 

Tegucigalpa

 

Kingston

 

Mexico City

 

Managua

 

Panama City

 

Asunción

 

Lima

 

Port of Spain

 

Washington, D.C.

 

Montevideo

 

Caracas

 

Kabul

 

Dhaka

 

Phnom Penh

 

Beijing

 

Dili

 

New Delhi

 

[10]

 

Baghdad

 

Tel Aviv

 

Tokyo

 

Amman

 

Astana

 

Kuwait City

 

[12]

 

[13]

 

Beirut

 

Kuala Lumpur

 

Ulaanbaatar

 

Yangon

 

Kathmandu

 

Islamabad

 

East Jerusalem

 

Manila

 

Doha

 

Riyadh

 

 

Seoul

 

Colombo

 

Taipei

 

Dushanbe

 

Bangkok

 

[15]

 

Abu Dhabi

 

Tashkent

 

Hanoi

 

Canberra

 

Suva

 

Wellington

 

Port Moresby

 

[16]

 

Honiara

 

Port Villa

(Delegation to the African Union)[a]

Addis Ababa

(Delegation to UN organisations and the World Trade Organization)[17]

Geneva

(Delegation to ASEAN)[18]

Jakarta

New York City ()

Delegation to the United Nations

Paris (Delegation to and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)

UNESCO

Rome (Delegation to the Holy See, Order of Malta, San Marino and UN organisations: , WFP, IFAD)[19][20]

Food and Agriculture Organization

(Delegation to the Council of Europe)

Strasbourg

(Delegation to the international organisations in Vienna: IAEA, UNODC, UNIDO and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)[21]

Vienna

 

Antigua and Barbuda

 

Dominica

 

Grenada

 

Saint Kitts and Nevis

 

Saint Lucia

 

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Resident in Bridgetown, Barbados


Resident in Suva, Fiji

 [22]

Iran

 [23]

Oman

 [24]

Suriname

 [25]

Suriname

 [26]

Syria

 [27]

Yemen

– for non-resident missions

Accreditations and Responsibilities of EU delegations

Delegations of the European Parliament

Delegation of the European Union to Canada

European Union Delegation to the United Kingdom

Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations

Delegation of the European Union to the United States

European External Action Service

Foreign relations of the European Union

List of diplomatic missions to the European Union

List of European Union ambassadors

CARIFORUM

EU Delegations worldwide

External Relations Directorate of the European Commission

External Service Directory – accreditations and responsibilities