The EU exhibition will illustrate the EU's key role in global food security in line with the EXPO theme "Feeding the Planet: Energy for Life". The EU space will showcase how EU policies address this world-wide challenge. Feeding the planet entails more than just food supply. It requires well-functioning market and trading systems, clear standards on food safety while respecting the global environment, human rights and guaranteeing peace. This edition of the Expo aims to become a milestone of planetary debate on food and sustainability and will be a platform for political discussions and policy initiatives on these issues. In this context, the EU theme statement will be: "Growing Europe's Future Together for a Better World". Connecting with the themes of the Expo, it will involve the visitor in the development of a sustainable future for Europe and the world. The EU participation is being coordinated by the Commission's in-house scientific service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), because of its strong scientific and technical competence in the theme of the Expo and the proximity of JRC's Ispra site to Milan.