A few years ago it was Chirac and France who complained that the summit was critical and including Mugabe, the man who has led Zimbabwe from the breadbasket of Africa to a starving nation. As someone who has much less faith in grand summits and the dubious results, I'm offended at the decision to again cast aside the law and allow an exception, but unfortunately some EU powers are obsessed with being locked out of the next financial boom in Africa that will profit a few dozen locals, perhaps, and enrich some global corporate power.
Whether Ghana or the African Union or anyone else publicly demands Mugabe is allowed to participate, that is their problem and not the EU's problem. Why bother to even have a travel ban for the likes of Mugabe if it's going to be pushed aside every time a summit is announced? Creating an exception for a man who has turned the state against his own people with brutal and sometimes deadly results will only reward this kind of behavior.
