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EUpol building in Kabul. The project 'has the wider effect of bringing EU Common Security and Defence Policy missions as a whole into disrepute' (Photo: Council of European Union)

British Lords criticise EU failures in Afghanistan

by Andrew Rettman, Brussels,

The 300-or-so highly-trained EU policemen trying to build law and order in Afghanistan have achieved "very little" in the past four years due to understaffing and bureaucracy, a British government report says.

The study, by an oversight committee in the House of Lords, out on Wednesday (16 February) described the set-up of the €50-million-a-year EUpol mission as "woefully inadequate" and said...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

EUpol building in Kabul. The project 'has the wider effect of bringing EU Common Security and Defence Policy missions as a whole into disrepute' (Photo: Council of European Union)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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