MEPs of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) questioned, on Thursday 31 August, the Director General of the European Commission’s DG NEAR, Gert Jan Koopman, on the agreement sealed in July between Tunisia and the EU, represented at the time by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the leaders of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, and the Netherlands, Mark Rutte (see EUROPE B13224A3).
In particular, they questioned the method chosen by these three officials and the...