The European External Action Service (EEAS) recommends, in a working document obtained by EUROPE on 7 December, that operation EUNAVFOR MED IRINI should be extended for two years, until 31 March 2023, and that it should be given two additional objectives.
In this document, which will be discussed by the Member States' ambassadors to the Political and Security Committee on 15 December, the EEAS explains that extending the mandate for more than a year “would send a strong signal as to the...