The European Union wants to send at least three warships to safeguard vessels in the Red Sea facing attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
According to a document from the European External Action Service seen by POLITICO, the EU’s diplomatic arm, the bloc should create ”a new EU operation” that would ”act in a broader area of operation, from the Red Sea to the Gulf.” The operation could be launched as soon as the end of February. […]
The proposal says ”the exact size and composition of the operation would be subject to further operational planning” but includes ”at least three anti-air destroyers or frigates with multi-mission capabilities for at least one year.”
The new mission would build on Agenor, a French-led joint surveillance operation covering the entire Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and part of the Arabian Sea and which is composed of nine European countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal), the document says. Läs artikel