Protecting traditional national and ethnic minorities, addressing inter-ethnic relations, and integrating immigrant minorities are crucially important challenges for the European Union, for its stability, security, prosperity, good neighbourhood relations, internal and external legitimacy and credibility.
Eiropas Parlaments 2004.–2009. gada sasaukumā ir vairākkārt aicinājis ASV administrāciju slēgt Gvantanamo līča karabāzē izvietoto ieslodzīto centru.