Brussels, 04/03/2014 (Agence Europe) - The EU has officially received an invitation to send an electoral observation mission to Algeria, where presidential elections are to be held on 17 April. The reply given appears to be less than unequivocally favourable.
The EU raises difficulties related to the timetable: “in line with our methodology, we would not be able to deploy a full electoral observation mission so late”, explained Michael Mann, the spokesperson to Catherine Ashton, the...