Meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament paid tribute to the 13 French soldiers involved in Operation Barkhane who died the previous day in Mali as the result of an accidental collision between two helicopters that had been mobilised as part of an operation against jihadist groups.
On Wednesday, 27 November, MEPs observed a minute's silence in their memory, at the request of Yannick Jadot (Greens-EFA, France). The previous day, David Sassoli, the President of the...