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... Latin America and Mexico Promoting development, fighting poverty New emphasis on helping the world’s poor ACP–EU Partnership Africa South Africa Human rights Defence and security: keeping the peace Rapid reaction for conflict prevention Further reading 3 5 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 3 The European Union’s influence in world affairs is on the increase. The process of integration, the launch of the euro and the progressive development of a common foreign and security policy are all providing the EU with political and diplomatic status to match its undoubted economic and commercial clout. The Union has a number of strategic foreign policy objectives. The first is to establish a stable Europe with a stronger voice in the world. The recent wars in Bosnia and Kosovo and the bloody fighting in Chechnya underline how important ...