First time for the EU. For the first time, an EU member state has decided on its own initiative to engage in a military operation, and other member states have supported it. Of course, the intervention is not arbitrary - it is based in particular on the positions and decisions of the UN, NATO and the EU itself, which make it legitimate. Yet the decision to act was taken in Paris, defining the limits and nature of the French intervention, and the EU as such then joined it. The previous...