EU in the war in Africa? Support, concern and perplexity - this is the triple, and in part contradictory, reaction, that the French decision to engage its armed forces in Mali has raised in the EU. The only official reaction of the Community institutions that I know about is that of the chair of the European Parliament's sub-committee on security and defence, Arnaud Danjean, who described the action taken by France as necessary and legitimate because it is in response to a request from a...