In a Communication to the Council agreed today, the Commission analyses the tools the EU has at its disposal to improve human rights, and lays out the following priorities for action: - Working consistently together with countries over several years to help them improve their human
rights record ; - Giving priority to countries which try hard to improve human rights by allocating funding to them ; - Offering greater support for electoral and dem
ocratic reform ; - Favouring action with a multiplier effect on human rights, such as su
...[+++]pport for independent media; - Mobilising international institutions, governments and NGOs to act in concert with the EU.