Germany - debates battling Somali pirates on land

Published on Dec 29, 2011 by Euronews

http://www.euronews.net/ How the European Union should tackle pirates is causing a stir in Germany, after a conservative newspaper reported a plan to extend fighting onto the beaches.

Without giving its source, Frankfurter Allgemeine wrote the EU's Atalanta operation in the Indian Ocean would increase its mandate - a move Germany's opposition is against.