The Arab League and European Union have shared relations since the EU's development into a more political power rather than an economic one.

The real Organizational relations started in 2007, when the Arab League adopted a diplomacy of reaching out to other regional Organizations and Big Economic Partners, specially the EU, ASEAN, China, India, Japan and South American.

Starting with its launch, which was a British supported idea, to increase Arab-Nationalism against the Ottomans in World War I.

The Summit came with a final resolution, named the Malta Communique, which discussed mostly Political relations, especially Middle East Issues such as Iraq, Lebanon, and the Gaza war.

This Second European Union-League of Arab States Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meeting issued the Cairo Declaration on 13 November 2012.