Unia Europejska wobec zagrożeń współczesnym piractwem morskim
European Union in View of Modern Piracy Maritime Threats

Summary/Abstract: Since the beginning of this century one can observe ‘renaissance’ of maritime piracy, which makes international maritime transport and trade difficult and dangerous. This article presents EU’ activities aiming at reducing the scale of this procedure and it is also an attempt to evaluate their effectiveness. The article discusses the number, motives and consequences of modern piracy as well as types of anti-piracy activities conducting by EU, which are concentrated in the Horn of Africa. The statistics show, that military mission called ‘Atalanta’, carried out by European forces has resulted in decreasing number of piracy attacks in Somalia region, but the fundamental reasons of modern piracy (political instability and poverty) have remained. In the future the main direction of combating piracy should be increasing development aid for coastal states as well as using ‘soft’ instruments of anti-piracy policy, such as programs supporting coastal states’ ability to fight piracy in their territorial water.

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