First uploaded to YouTube on November 30, 2022

There's been an increased activity between European Union and Persian Gulf state officials in the past year. What are EU's plans in the Gulf? Does it only focus on energy cooperation? Does it find space for any security strategy?

illustrations, as they appear:

0. Flags of European Union Countries, Gintare K – Source: pexels
1. Ursula von der Leyen, CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2019 – Source: EP
2. GCC, UNCHR 2016
3. Libya, Al Jazeera
4. The far right and migrants - PBS Frontline
5. War in Yemen - Council for Foreign Relations
6. The attack on Pacific Zircon - Reuters
7. EU map - Wikipedia
8. Saudi-German spat - Reuters 9 and 10. Sweden-Saudi spat - the Guardian
9. PSG owners - Sport Bible
10. Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia
11. The Qatar Crisis - BBC
12. Biden and MBS - Washington Post
13. Ursula von der Leyen in Bahrain - her tweet on 17.11.2022
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15. Saad al-Fuhaid - Arab News
16. Patrick Simonnet - EEAS
17. Ilkka Salmi - Security & Defence Agenda, Flickr
18. Walid al-Khuraiji - Arab News
19. Charles Michel - CC BY 2.0 Annika Haas (EU2017EE)
20. Josep Borell - CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2019 – Source: EP
21. Enrique Mora - Casa de América, Flickr
22. Algeria - GIS
23. The Gulf strategy - European Sources Online
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25. Solar Power Potential, Saudi Arabia - Faisal Rahman Pazheri
26. Operation Atalanta - European Council, Council of the EU
27. Ali Khomenei - CC BY 4.0 khamenei.ir
28. The nuclear deal - Council on Foreign Relations
29. Middle East Cold War - Middle East Eye
30. Attacks on UAE - AlJazeera
31. Arab-Iranian thaw - Middle East Institute