French and Spanish for more robust missions against pirates
(BRUSSELS2 to Wroclaw) Several countries defended in Wroclaw the need to provide the EU anti-piracy mission, EUnavfor Atalanta, with more robust means, more "effective and" intervention against pirates. This was the meaning of the intervention of the French (G. Longuet) and Spanish (C. Chacon) Ministers of Defense. The German representative (in the absence of the Minister, it was the Parliamentary State Secretary, Christian Schmidt, who was at the ministers' table), discreetly remained silent. We know that this is not an option defended by Germany.
However Duncan Potts, the head of mission presented several options, in particular the famous option IV which would make it possible to go on the beaches in a preventive way, to destroy the pirate bases. But no agreement could be reached. It was not really the place, nor the moment, argues a European diplomat.
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