"Germany made a serious mistake over the refugee crisis," says the historian, referring to the majority decisions made by the
European Council of Ministers in September 2015.
The foreign minister will attend a session of the
European Council of Ministers to discuss the Syria crisis and its repercussions on Lebanon and efforts made to resume the Syria peace talks in Geneva.
He is visiting Milan on the joint invitation extended to Pakistan by the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, the President of the
European Council of Ministers Herman Van Rompuy, and the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso.
February's meeting of the
European Council of Ministers will be a good place to start.
For a time, this looked likely to be at European level, with the presidency of the
European Council of Ministers the most obvious potential destination.
* An anonymous diplomatic source of the weekly Gragjanski has recently suggested a scenario according to which Macedonia could be set a date for opening membership negotiations with the EU at the summit of the
European Council of Ministers in December provided that the name issue talks shift from the UN to the EU and become one of the chapters in the accession process.
In the meantime, the
European Council of Ministers have begun formulating their position and political groups are beginning to draft possible amendments.
If the agreement is signed (on April 26), they will then call on the European Commission to ask the
European Council of Ministers to make the agreement binding in the EU's member states.
The European Parliament will vote in June on Schengen membership for Bulgaria and Romania, and the final decision will be for the
European Council of Ministers.
Spain's Environment and Fisheries Minister Elena Espinosa also said: "On Monday I shall be at the
European Council of Ministers and I shall be asking for a (fishing) ban on Paul the octopus so Germans do not eat him."
"On Monday, I shall be at the
European Council of Ministers and I shall be asking for a [fishing] ban on Paul the octopus so the Germans do not eat him," Elena said.