On Thursday 23 November, Kawa Hassan, the director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at EastWest Institute, said the EU had a role to play in Iraq – although several MEPs were more sceptical about the EU's influence on the country.
"It is always important to be humble and honest, but this should not prevent ambition. The EU has influence. It is not the USA or another important actor, but it has influence and a power of conviction", Hassan said during a hearing at the...