Europe Aims to Shore Up Iraq With Iran and Libya Out of Reach

Foreign ministers focused on limiting impact of Iran crisis
Borrell says Libya also risks ‘spiraling out of control’

Protesters try to break into the U.S. embassy building in Baghdad on Dec. 31, 2019.Photographer: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images

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By Ian Wishart and Caroline Alexander

January 10, 2020 at 8:26 PM UTC

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The European Union is focused on maintaining stability in Iraq as shock-waves from the killing of Iran’s top general in Baghdad this month reverberate around the Middle East.

“Iraq is our most important concern today,” Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, said in a press conference after an emergency meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels on Friday.