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STRENGTHENING
PARTNERS’ CAPABILITIES
The European Peace Facility (EPF) expands the EU’s ability
to support partners, prevent conflicts, build peace, and
strengthen international security.
With €7.9 billion the EPF enhances the EU’s geopolitical
position as a global security and defence actor by:
+ providing lethal and non-lethal equipment to partners
+ financing peace support operations led by
international and regional organisations
+ providing equipment to complement EU training
+ supporting African-led Peace Support Operations with
€730 million (2021-2024)
€ The EPF enhances
the EU’s
geopolitical SECURITY AND
7.9 position as a DEFENCE DIALOGUES
billion global security and
defence actor
The EU holds regular dialogues and consultations with
key partners:
+ thematic dialogues on counterterrorism, cyber,
maritime security, non-proliferation, disarmament,
arms control and space
and consultations +
Security and
defence dialogues 20 + security and defence dialogues and consultations with
more than 20 partner countries and international and
with regional organisations
partner countries
and international and
regional organisations SECURING
STRATEGIC DOMAINS
+ The EU assists partners to strengthen their resilience to
hybrid threats
+ The EU promotes and protects a global, open, stable
and secure cyberspace through bilateral, regional,
multilateral and multi-stakeholder cooperation
+ Maritime security cooperation with partners to react to
growing threats, protect critical infrastructure and the
environment
+ Partnerships with the UN, US, NATO and like-minded
countries for responsible behaviours in outer space

Building partners’
resilience against DISARMAMENT,
hybrid NON-PROLIFERATION,
ARMS EXPORT CONTROL
threats + The EU promotes multilateral solutions to support
international treaties, organisations, and regimes that
ban or restrict nuclear, chemical, biological, and
Cyber | Maritime | Space | Disinformation conventional weapons
+ The EU and its Member States are one of the biggest
donors in the non-proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction, disarmament, and arms export controls

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