The prospect of EU policemen going to Afghanistan to train locals became a shade more realistic at the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday (14 December), with EU top diplomat Javier Solana telling European leaders that Kabul would welcome the mission.
Mr Solana's report - delivered at dinner on the invitation of Finnish PM Matti Vanhanen - was based on his preliminary meeting with a team of EU experts who have been touring the war-torn country for the past two weeks in order to prepare a ...
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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.