When the leaders of the European Union’s member states gather in Brussels on Thursday (12 February), their minds will be on issues of war and peace. François Hollande, France’s president, was blunt this weekend about the dangers created by the rivers of blood flowing in eastern Ukraine. “If we do not manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it’s called war,” Hollande said.
That war in eastern Ukraine is only one element in the shifting landscape that foreign ministers will survey today (9 …read more
Source: European Voice
