The European Union’s relations with Africa are currently top of the agenda for a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday (16 March).
The ministers had originally been expected to talk about Africa on 9 February, but instead spent two hours debating whether to delay sanctions against 19 Russians and Ukrainians by a week to help an emerging peace deal in eastern Ukraine.
The chances of African affairs being displaced again have been reduced, one diplomat suggested, by attacks on foreigners in Mali, where the EU has two training missions.
A Belgian security adviser working for the EU, 44-year-old Ronny Piens, was killed …read more
Source: European Voice
