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resolution motion, 15 December 2025

On the grave political situation in Guinea-Bissau after the coup of 26 November

Motion B-10-2025-0573 · (2025/3027(RSP))

on behalf of the ESN Group · Rapporteur: Tomasz Froelich, Petr Bystron, Marc Jongen

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This resolution addresses the political crisis in Guinea-Bissau after the 26 November coup, expressing concern about instability, drug trafficking, and migration, and calling for conditional EU aid and dialogue.

Key points

  1. Notes the coup on 26 November 2025, when army generals suspended the electoral process and blocked the declaration of presidential election results.
  2. Emphasises that instability deters investment, disrupts trade, and fuels insecurity, and encourages the military transitional authority to start dialogue with political forces and economic elites.
  3. Considers Guinea-Bissau a narco-state and the primary driver of its crisis, stressing that cocaine trafficking threatens European societies.
  4. Worries that the crisis and population growth will fuel illegal migration.
  5. Calls on the EU to develop a common approach with Guinea-Bissau to tackle illegal migration and drug trafficking.
  6. Demands that further EU development aid and trade cooperation be conditional on Guinea-Bissau's cooperation on readmission of its citizens.
  7. Criticises the EU-Guinea-Bissau fisheries agreement for causing overfishing and unfair revenue distribution, harming local livelihoods and development.
  8. Calls on the African Union to engage pragmatically with Guinea-Bissau.

Who is affected

  • The military transitional authority in Guinea-Bissau is encouraged to start dialogue with political forces and economic elites.
  • The EU is called on to make aid and trade conditional on Guinea-Bissau's readmission cooperation.
  • The African Union is asked to engage pragmatically with Guinea-Bissau.

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B100573/2025

European Parliament resolution on the grave political situation in Guinea-Bissau after the coup of 26 November

(2025/3027(RSP))

The European Parliament,

– having regard to Rule 150 (5) of its Rules of Procedure,

A. whereas on 26 November 2025, army generals suspended the electoral process and blocked the official declaration of the results of the closely contested presidential election of 23 November in Guinea-Bissau which incumbent President Umaro Embalo and opposition candidate, Fernando Dias, both claimed to have won;

B. whereas the coup only deepens the institutional backsliding that was already underway;

C. whereas Guinea-Bissau has had nine attempted coups and five successful ones since its independence in September 1973, demonstrating persistent structural governance failures;

D. whereas decades of democracy promotion efforts and development aid have failed because they did not address underlying structural factors;

E. whereas Guinea Bissau has become one of the largest transit zones for cocaine trafficking from South America to Europe;

F. whereas Guinea-Bissau is both a country of origin of illegal migration and a transit point for illegal migrants from other countries in West Africa; whereas according to the European Commission, the cooperation of Guinea-Bissau with EU countries on readmission of its citizens is inadequate with persistent delays in identification, documentation and actual returns;

1. Emphasises that instability deters foreign investment, disrupts trade and fuels insecurity; encourages the military transitional authority to start dialogue with the main political forces and economic elites to confront the multiple economic and social challenges;

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2. Is concerned that Guinea-Bissau operates as a narco-state with systematic infiltration of drug trafficking organisations into political, military and security institutions; considers narco-state dynamics as the primary driver of Guinea-Bissau’s political crisis and instability; emphasises that cocaine flowing through Guinea Bissau directly threatens European societies, fuels organised crime across the EU and undermines European security;

3. Is worried that the continuing political and economic crisis in Guinea-Bissau, combined with the rapidly growing population, will continue to fuel illegal migration;

4. Calls on the EU to reach out to the authorities in Guinea Bissau and to elaborate a common approach that recognises the interests of each side, tackling illegal migration and drug trafficking;

5. Emphasises that further EU development aid and trade cooperation have to be made conditional on Guinea Bissau’s cooperation in the field of readmission of its citizens;

6. Notes that the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) between the EU and Guinea Bissau leads to competition between EU and Bissau-Guinean vessels, problematic overfishing of Guinea Bissau’s EEZ and an unfair distribution of revenues, harming local citizens’ right to work and food as well as Guinea-Bissau’s development; emphasises that such policy contradicts both the EU’s claim of human rights champion and the aims of its development policy;

7. Calls on the African Union to engage pragmatically with Guinea Bissau;

8. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the European External Action Service, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the African Union and the National Transitional Council of Guinea Bissau.