At lunchtime on Monday 11 December, the foreign affairs ministers of the EU Member States, meeting in Council, discussed the options put to them by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, for adapting the EU’s action to the new situation in the Sahel, on the basis of greater flexibility and cooperation on a case-by-case basis, but they have not yet reached an agreement (see EUROPE B13310A20). On the same day, the United Nations...