EU foreign ministers are gathering in a Finnish lakeside fortress to discuss strategy on the Middle East and Iran amid fresh and controversial plans by the Finnish EU presidency to open contact with the Palestinian Hamas movement.
Ministers will arrive for a two-day informal meeting in the town of Lappeenranta on Friday afternoon (1 September), with the most contentious topic - the bloc's line on the Middle East – on the agenda first.
Just before the talks on Thursday, Finnish f...
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