The European Union mission to protect commercial vessels against Iran-backed Houthi rebel attacks in the Red Sea could kick off in mid-February, EU officials said Wednesday.
”We have to decide which country will take the command … where the headquarters will be, what navy assets member states will provide,” the bloc’s top diplomat Josep Borrell told reporters Wednesday ahead of an informal meeting of defense ministers in Brussels. […]
The EU’s approach is only defensive, Borrell said. It’s about protecting ships and intercepting attacks, ”not participating in any kind of actions against the Houthis, only blocking their attacks,” he added. The U.S. and the U.K. have carried out airstrikes against Houthi positions in Yemen. Läs artikel