1. The European Union welcomes the thematic debate on the abolition of the death penalty, a matter that goes to the heart of our common European project: the protection of human dignity and the effective enjoyment of human rights by every individual. This shared commitment was reaffirmed in the Reykjavik Summit Declaration of 2023.  2. The EU reiterates, in the clearest and most unequivocal terms, its strong and active opposition to the use of the death penalty, in all cases and in all