Brussels, 19/12/2013 (Agence Europe) - While recognising that consular protection remains a national competence, the EU foreign affairs ministers committed, on 17 December, “to further explore (…) possibilities for developing (…) the role of EU delegations in facilitating and supporting coordination between member states in their role of providing consular protection to citizens of the Union in third countries, also taking into account lessons learnt from previous crises and the...