EU adopts new strategy on Afghanistan, notes failures

EU foreign ministers have agreed to step up aid to Afghanistan as part of a new strategy for tackling the problems faced by the embattled country.

But the ministerial report outlining the new strategy for better co-ordination and greater aid also highlights the litany of failures in the US and EU campaign so far.

"The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating," says the document adopted by the ministers in Luxembourg on Tuesday (27 October).

"We are not only faced with a c...