On Wednesday 5 October, the members of the European Parliament spoke out against the humanitarian disaster taking place in Aleppo, while struggling to set out in detail an international strategy to lay down arms and instead relaunch a political process.
"We have failed in Aleppo and in Syria", said Belgium's Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, which is in favour of creating a no-fly zone above Aleppo. Fabio Massimo Castaldo (EFDD, Italy) said that the Europeans are the champions of...