Several European leaders have demanded the EU reacts as a bloc in the Mohammed cartoon case following the past weekend’s violent protests, but the Austrian EU presidency wants to wait and see.
"For the moment we have no plans to call for a crisis meeting. If we call upon the ministers of the 25 member states, we would like to see something coming out of it," an Austrian presidency spokesperson said on Sunday (5 February), according to Nordic media.
Earlier the same day in Beirut...
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