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Borrell washes hands of EU's Venezuela policy
By EUobserver
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has washed his hands of an EU statement, on 6 January, which called Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó part of an "outgoing National Assembly", instead of "interim president", as in the past, over rigged elections. Guaidó's EU-downgrade was "not a statement [by me] but … a unanimous statement by the 27 EU member states. They're the ones who approved this," Borrell told MEPs Tuesday.