[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The European Union...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
on Saturday denied it was about to lift sanctions against Zim-bob-we President Bob
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Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
as part of a current policy review by the bloc on the southern African nation.
"The EU is reflecting on policy towards Zim-bob-we," said a front man for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
"But there is no question of lifting sanctions (an asset freeze and travel ban) against Mugabe or anyone involved in continued abuses of human rights
...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
, incitement to violence, etc -- that is simply not up for discussion," said Michael Mann.
The denial was prompted by reports in the British press of an imminent lifting of the EU's 2002 sanctions against Mugabe.