Crisis areas monitored by B2
(B2) What are the main 'hot spots' on the globe? Where does the European Union intervene, from a diplomatic point of view or from its crisis management missions/operations (CSDP). Here is the reading grid for monitoring B2.
Being in one or the other category does not mean that the situation is more or less serious. This simply means that we follow it more closely because we estimate (subjectively) its greater impact for Europe. This grid is re-evaluated approximately every six months, depending on current events.
Category A – strong follow-up
- Belgrade Pristina Dialogue
- Iranian nuclear agreement JCPOA – Iran
- G5 Sahel (Mali, Burkina, Chad, Niger, Mauritania),
- Libya
- + Central-South Mediterranean: control of the arms embargo off the coast of Libya
- Ukraine
- Georgia / Ossetia-Abkhazia
- Belarus
- EU-Russia
Category B – regular monitoring
- Balkans
- Iraq
- Syria
- Central
- Horn of Africa (Somalia, Eritrea)
- EU-Turkey
- + Eastern Mediterranean (Greece-Türkiye-Cyprus)
- EU-USA
- EU-African Union
Category C – episodic monitoring
- EU-China
- China Sea
- North Korea
- Mediterranean Sea (migrations)
- EU-India
- Indo-Pacific zone
- DR Congo
- Middle East peace process
- Lebanon
- Yemen
- Ivory Coast
- Mozambique
- Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia)
- Venezuela
- Nicaragua
- Colombia
- Afghanistan.
- Myanmar Burma
- Northern Ireland (peace process
- Cyprus (reunification negotiations)
- Arctic
- North – South gas pipelines
Updated March 1, 2021