Letter from Baerbock and colleagues: EU should sanction Iran's missile industry. Germany and eight other EU states are now calling for new sanctions.

But Brussels is taking its time. The EU is sending a mission to the Red Sea to protect merchant ships from drone attacks by the Houthis,’ says Green MEP Hannah Neumann. It shows once again "how little the EEAS and individual member states are prepared to follow their clear words with political action," she says. The Foreign Office is still waiting for a response from the Spaniard.