The passing of repressive legislation in Zimbabwe has provoked alarm in the European Union. The EU is expected to tell Zimbabwe that the country faces possible sanctions following the passing of what is being described as repressive legislation in the run-up to the Presidential election in March.
Officials are due to meet a Zimbabwean delegation in Brussels today after the laws, which ban independent election monitors and make it a criminal offence to criticise President Robert Mugabe, were passed yesterday.
The main Zimbabwean opposition group, the Movement for Democratic Change, said the laws were designed to disable the party. South Africa's Nobel peace laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, said he was saddened by events in the neighbouring country.
