EU Moves Forward With Plans for New Red Sea Naval Operation
- Bloc could send at least three destroyers to the Red Sea
- Plans come as US conducted new strikes on Houthi targets
A pilot vessel heads to shore after leaving a container ship as it navigates through the Red Sea in Suez, Egypt.
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The European Union agreed to move ahead with plans to establish a new naval operation in the Red Sea to protect commercial shipping as the US conducted new airstrikes against Houthi missile sites in Yemen.
Senior EU diplomats moved forward with the plans but details still have to be worked out, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The bloc could sign off on the plans as soon as Jan. 22 at a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels, Bloomberg reported last week.