The European Union held a first round of talks today to address the escalating violence in Egypt.
The ambassadors of the EU’s political security Committee were called away from their summer break for talks in Brussels.
Amidst warnings of heightening violence, the presidents of the European Council and European Commission said in a joint statement, that the Union would review its relations with Cairo.
In their joint statement Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso, also reiterated,
“The calls for democracy and fundamental freedoms from the Egyptian population cannot be disregarded, much less washed away in blood.”