European leaders are expected to commit to strengthening the EU’s strategic autonomy in defence, energy and the economy, according to a Tuesday 8 March draft of the declaration they are expected to adopt at the Versailles summit on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 March. In parallel, they will adopt a declaration affirming their solidarity with the Ukrainian people (see EUROPE B12906A2).
Calling Russian aggression in Ukraine a “tectonic shift in European history”, and in the face of...