Before being detained by Belgian police in Brussels on Tuesday (2 December) on suspicion of fraud, Stefano Sannino, the European Commission’s top envoy for Middle Eastern affairs, was busy extolling what he called shared “values, principles, and partnerships.”
It was the kind of rhetoric that tends to draw eye-rolls from seasoned EU watchers where lofty talk l...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.