Brussels has voiced alarm at the mounting risk of open warfare in the EU's southeast neighbours - Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - amid European plans to sign new cooperation pacts and build new pipelines in the region.
"Negative trends are coming together, the combination of which is, frankly, alarming," external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said at an experts' forum in Slovenia on Monday (28 August), citing a recent upswing in aggressive rhetoric and arms spending....
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.