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Migration and Home Affairs

Engagement with partner countries

  • 16 October 2025
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Cooperation on home affairs is an integral part of the EU-Africa partnership. The EU has been running an intense and broad dialogue with Africa on migration and mobility at a bilateral, regional and continental level.

Cooperation on migration and asylum and home affairs are important elements of the EU’s strategic relationship with Canada, as set out in the 2016 Strategic Partnership Agreement and Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

The EU cooperates with different countries in Asia on key areas such as migration and security.

The Eastern Partnership is a joint policy initiative to enhance relations with the six Eastern neighbours Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, including in the field of migration and home affairs.

EU candidate countries must adopt the entire body of EU law (acquis), including the area of home affairs.

The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) gathers all 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries in the region. It is the EU's official counterpart for strategic partnership.

Following the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine (24 February 2022), any ongoing or planned engagement on home affairs with Russia has been suspended.

EU cooperation with the Southern Neighbourhood takes place in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and includes ten partner countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine*, Syria and Tunisia.

The relations between the European Union and the United Kingdom are governed by the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. The Agreement sets out their cooperation in various areas, including law enforcement and judicial cooperation.

Cooperation on home affairs is an important part of the strategic relationship between the EU and the United States, framed by the New Transatlantic Agenda.

*This designation shall not be construed as recognition of a State of Palestine and is without prejudice to the individual positions of the Member States on this issue