When arriving at the Gymnich in Sofia on Thursday 15 February, several European ministers expressed a degree of cautiousness about possible French airstrikes on Syria. The previous day, France's President Emmanuel Macron had announced that if France had "hard evidence that outlawed chemical weapons are used against civilians" in Syria by the regime, it "would strike".
"The term 'red line' should always be used with care (...) We had a similar situation in 2013", Austria's Foreign...