Centre bottom: Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign diplomacy chief, at the launch of EU's pact for the Mediterranean in Barcelona (Photo: Union for the Mediterranean)

EU launches Mediterranean pact, but top Maghreb envoys stay away

EU & the World

Migration

Africa

by Nikolaj Nielsen, Barcelona,

The EU on Friday (28 November) in Barcelona launched its pact on the Mediterranean that seeks to create a new era of relations with neighbouring states in the hopes of stemming irregular migration.

But several of the key countries

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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Centre bottom: Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign diplomacy chief, at the launch of EU's pact for the Mediterranean in Barcelona (Photo: Union for the Mediterranean)