Also, in Tuesday’s edition: Ribera’s sauce andalouse, Taliban transparency, illicit drugs
TALIBAN LEVELS OF TRANSPARENCY: Just 22 days after Euractiv revealed that the European Commission planned to invite the Taliban to Brussels for migration talks, the institution has finally admitted the meeting will take place.
On 21 April, after we published this exclusive, EU spokesperson Markus Lammert said from the podium: “I cannot confirm that a meeting with the de facto authorities from Afghanistan is scheduled to take place in Brussels at this time or that an invitation has been sent.” So what prompted the sudden outbreak of candour?
You’re reading Rapporteur on Tuesday 12 May. This is Eddy Wax, with Nicoletta Ionta in Brussels.
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