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Thursday, March 10, 2022
Ukraine crisis to dominate EU leaders’ Versailles summit
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEU leaders will scramble today to find ways to urgently address the fallout of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that has imperiled the bloc’s economy and exposed a dire need for a stronger defense.
The meeting at the Versailles palace had been set to be the high point of France’s six-month EU presidency, but President Emmanuel Macron will instead spearhead a crisis summit to answer Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s brutal disruption to decades of stability in Europe.
“Russia’s war of aggression constitutes a tectonic shift in European history,” a draft of the two-day meeting’s final declaration says.
The leaders will grasp “how the EU can live up to its responsibilities in this new reality, protecting our citizens, values, democracies, and our European model.”
The Times of Israel Community.