EU politicians will return from summer holidays to a week dominated by the G20 summit in St Petersburg, where European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European head Herman van Rompuy will represent the EU on Thursday and Friday (5-6 September).
While the G20's remit primarily covers economic and trade policy, the ongoing crisis in Syria is set to be uppermost in leaders' minds.
Despite this, the talks should "come out with a very strong confidence-boosting message on...
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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.