| aa | Association Agreement |
| afd | Alternative für Deutschland |
| afsj | Area of Freedom, Security and Justice |
| aiib | Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank |
| ap | Action Plan |
| apec | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| APT28 | Advanced Persistent Threat 28 |
| bar | Barents Regional Council |
| bcm | billion cubic metres |
| beac | Barents Euro-Arctic Council |
| bri | Belt and Road Initiative |
| brics | Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa |
| cbc | cross-border cooperation |
| cda | critical discourse analysis |
| cdu | Christlich Demokratische Union |
| cepa | Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement |
| cert-eu | Computer Emergency Response Team for the EU |
| cfsp | Common Foreign and Security Policy |
| cges | Centre for German and European Studies |
| cis | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| cjeu | Court of Justice of the European Union |
| cnpc | China National Petroleum Corporation |
| CoE | Council of Europe |
| cPPP | contractual public-private partnership |
| cpsu | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| csce | Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| csdp | Common Security and Defence Policy |
| csf | Civil Society Forum |
| csfsj | Common Space of Freedom, Security and Justice |
| csirts | Computer Security Incident Response Teams |
| cso | civil society organisation |
| csr | Common Strategy on Russia |
| dcfta | Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area |
| DDoS | distributed denial-of–service |
| dg near | Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations |
| dgap | Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Auswaertige Politik |
| dpr | Donetsk People’s Republic |
Dispute Settlement Body |
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| eacea | Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency |
| eaeu | Eurasian Economic Union |
| EaP | Eastern Partnership |
| ebrd | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| ec | European Commission |
| ecfr | European Council on Foreign Relations |
| echr | European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms |
| ecj | European Court of Justice |
| ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
| ects | European Credit Transfer System |
| eda | European Defence Agency |
| eea | European Economic Area |
| eeas | European External Action Service |
| ehea | European Higher Education Area |
| eib | European Investment Bank |
| eidhr | European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights |
| eiti | Extractive Industries Resource Initiative |
| emcdda | European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction |
| eni | European Neighbourhood Instrument |
| enisa | European Union Agency for Network and Information Security |
| enp | European Neighbourhood Policy |
| enpi | European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument |
| epca | Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement |
| erdf | European Regional Development Fund |
| EU | European Union |
| eucam | Europe-Central Asia Monitoring |
| eumm | EU Monitoring Mission |
| eunic | European Union National Institutes for Culture |
| EurAsEC | Eurasian Economic Community |
| eusr | EU Special Representative |
| fdcs | Federal Drug Control Service |
| fiia | Finnish Institute for International Affairs |
| fom | Foundation Public Opinion |
| fpi | Foreign Policy Instrument |
| Frontex | European Border and Coast Guard Agency |
| ftf | foreign terrorist fighters |
| gats | General Agreement on Trade in Services |
| gatt | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| gc | General Court |
Global Counter-Terrorism Forum |
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| ghg | greenhouse gas |
| gru | Russian military intelligence unit |
| gsp | Generalised Scheme of Preferences |
| H2020 | Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework |
| hei | higher education institution |
| hr/vp | High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission |
| ibpp | Institution Building Partnership Programme |
| icj | International Court of Justice |
| icr | international cultural relations |
| iea | International Energy Agency |
| imf | International Monetary Fund |
| ip | intellectual property |
| iprm | Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism |
| irena | International Renewable Energy Agency |
| isis | Islamic State in Iraq and Syria |
| it | information technology |
| jcc | Joint Control Commission |
| jcpoa | Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (jcpoa) |
| jha | Justice and Home Affairs |
| jit | Joint Investigation Team |
| jls | Justice, Liberty, Security |
| jpo | Joint Police Operation |
| lbt | Local Border Traffic |
| lgbt | lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender |
| lng | liquefied natural gas |
| lpr | Luhansk People’s Republic |
| ltv | Limited Territorial Validity |
| ma | managing authority |
| mena | Middle East and North Africa |
| mep | Member of European Parliament |
| mfa | Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| nato | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
| nd | Northern Dimension |
| ndici | Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument |
| ndtpl | Northern Dimension Partnership on Transport and Logistics |
| ngo | non-governmental organisation |
| nis | Network and Information Security |
| nsr | Northern Sea Route |
Northwest Passage |
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| ocha | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |
| odihr | Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights |
| oecd | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| olaf | European Anti-Fraud Office |
| osce | Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe |
| P4M | Partnership for Modernisation |
| pame | Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment |
| pca | Partnership and Cooperation Agreement |
| pesco | Permanent Structured Cooperation |
| pi | Partnership Instrument |
| pnr | passenger name records |
| ppc | Permanent Partnership Council |
| R&D | research and development |
| ra | Readmission Agreement |
| rao ues | Unified Energy System of Russia |
| re | renewable energy |
| reps | renewable energy policies |
| res | renewable energy sources |
| rf | Russian Federation |
| rwgtl | Regional Working Group on Transport and Logistics |
| sao | Senior Arctic Officials |
| sco | Shanghai Cooperation Organisation |
| sinnea | Switzerland, Norway and the EU-Iceland and European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committees |
| smes | small and medium enterprises |
| smm | Special Monitoring Mission |
| smrees | small- and medium-sized renewable energy enterprises |
| spd | Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands |
| sps | sanitary and phytosanitary standards |
| tacis | Technical Assistance for Newly Independent States |
| tbt | technical barriers to trade |
| tempus | Trans-European Mobility Programme for University Studies |
| ten-e | Trans-European Networks for Energy |
| ten-t | European Transport Network |
| teu | Treaty on European Union |
| tfeu | Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union |
| to | Thematic Objective |
| trips | Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights |
| uavs | unmanned aerial vehicles |
United Nations |
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| unclos | UN Convention on the Law of the Sea |
| unhcr | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| US | United States |
| ussr | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| veb | Vnesheconombank |
| vfa | Visa Facilitation Agreement |
| vlap | Visa Liberalisation Action Plan |
| VTsIOM | Russian Public Opinion Research Center |
| wto | World Trade Organisation |