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EU needs to play an active role within UN to achieve its foreign policy goals

EU needs to play an active role within UN to achieve its foreign policy goals
The European Parliament voted to adopt a report today focusing on the role of the EU within the United Nation and on how to better achieve EU foreign policy goals.

The rapporteur, ALDE MEP, Paavo Väyrynen (Centre Party, Finland), calls on the EU institutions and the Member States to consider the possibility of strengthening their role in the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) by developing it into a Sustainable Development Council.

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