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Chad–European Union relations are the foreign relations between the country of Chad and the European Union.

Economic relations with the EU
Chad benefits from the Everything But Arms initiative granted to the least developed countries, allowing access to the European market without customs duties or quantitative restrictions.

In 2010, over a quarter of Chad's imports came from the EU.

Objectives
The EU's funding objectives are aimed to ensure support food and nutritional security and rural development, sustainable management of natural resources, and the consolidation of the rule of law and civil society. All EU projects in Chad also address cross-cutting issues such as gender, environment and capacity building.

Chad is also among the countries benefiting from the EU emergency trust fund for stability and addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons.

Finances
The 11th European Development Fund allocated €542 million to Chad for the 2014-2020 funding period.

On 28 April, 2020, the EU announced €194 million additional support to the Sahel. The countries included were Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.

UN-EU Peacekeeping Force
In September of 2007, the UN Security Council authorised a UN-European Union peacekeeping force to protect civilians from violence spilling over from Darfur in neighbouring Sudan. In March of 2009, the European Union peacekeepers in eastern Chad hand over to a new, larger UN force known as Minurcat.