Preparations are intensifying two days before the sixth European Union-African Union (AU) summit on 17-18 February in Brussels - a major geostrategic challenge for the EU, even if the Ukraine crisis threatens to overshadow it.
The EU27 ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) met twice on Monday 14 February and reached agreement in principle on the draft political declaration in the evening.
“We have entered an intense phase of negotiation, and things are moving forward methodically”, said a...