France and Germany join the procession of European Dignatories making peace with Ahmed Ali. The coherence of European Policy on Ethiopia is re-forming.
However big questions are now raised about the EU Parliament's super majority Ethiopia resolution on the conflict in late '22.
However big questions are now raised about the EU Parliament's super majority Ethiopia resolution on the conflict in late '22.
The now forlorn decision by Brussels politicians & the @eu_eeas ~ to advance the ICHREE (International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia) a commission that has been riven with resignations due to inappropriate appointments did untold damage to EU-Ethiopia relations.
It is good that both the US and EU Nation States have now reckoned with and realised that their policy vis a vis Ethiopia was uninformed from the outbreak of war in 2020.
But it's not feasible for such a reversal in position - on such a horrific conflict - to be unexplained.
But it's not feasible for such a reversal in position - on such a horrific conflict - to be unexplained.
The positions taken twice by the High Representative @JosepBorrellF and the European Parliament in late 2021 and late 2022 were materially damaging to efforts to end the war. They gave succor to the agressor in the war the TPLF on both occasions. Leading to more death.
In my view the mistakes made in European Foreign Policy wrt to Ethiopia in this conflict warrant a formal European Parliamentary mandated commission of inquiry to examine how these mistakes came to be made.
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