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Borrell calls Afghanistan debacle as 'catastrophe'
By EUobserver
The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell described developments in Afghanistan as "a catastrophe" on Thursday and said there had been a failure of intelligence to anticipate the Taliban's rapid return to power. Speaking to MEPs, Borrell said that about 100 EU staff and 400 Afghans working with the EU and their families had been evacuated, but that 300 more Afghans were still trying to leave.