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Upcoming Global Strategy must take account of threats and opportunities posed by climate change, argues E3G report

Later this month, the EU is set to lay out its new Global Strategy, more than a decade after it last set out a a similar strategic foreign policy vision in 2003. The broad consultation for the strategy...

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