EU Debates Role in Afghanistan

World | November 13, 2006, Monday // 00:00

European Union foreign and defense ministers meeting in Brussels today are expected to engage in a heated debate about the 25-member bloc's future role in Afghanistan. Before the meeting, the NATO general secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer sharply criticized the European Union of doing too little to help the reconstruction process in Afghanistan. The transatlantic alliance is fighting an uphill battle to get Taliban insurgents under control in the extremely shaky south of the strife-torn country. At the same time it's becoming more and more obvious that reconstruction and institution building efforts have so far failed to stabilize Afghanistan.

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