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European Union

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The aims of the European Union within its borders are:

  • promote peace, its values and the well-being of its citizens
  • offer freedom, security and justice without internal borders, while also taking appropriate measures at its external borders to regulate asylum and immigration and prevent and combat crime
  • establish an internal market
  • achieve sustainable development based on balanced economic growth and price stability and a highly competitive market economy with full employment and social progress
  • protect and improve the quality of the environment
  • promote scientific and technological progress
  • combat social exclusion and discrimination
  • promote social justice and protection, equality between women and men, and protection of the rights of the child
  • enhance economic, social and territorial cohesion and solidarity among EU countries
  • respect its rich cultural and linguistic diversity
  • establish an economic and monetary union whose currency is the euro

The aims of the EU within the wider world are:

  • uphold and promote its values and interests
  • contribute to peace and security and the sustainable development of the Earth
  • contribute to solidarity and mutual respect among peoples, free and fair trade, eradication of poverty and the protection of human rights
  • strict observance of international law

The EU’s aims are laid out in article 3 of the Lisbon Treaty.

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