On Monday 28 May, the European foreign affairs ministers were not able to move on to the adoption of the EU negotiating mandate for the future framework on relations between the EU and the 79 ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) countries, on the expiry of the Cotonou Agreement on 20 February 2020.
The reason for this was that the ambassadors of the 28 EU member states (Coreper) did not manage to find a compromise, the same morning, on the 'migration' chapter that might accommodate the...