The EU heads of state and government will debate measures to strengthen the EU’s strategic autonomy in Versailles on Friday 11 March, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine reinforcing the urgency of making progress in this area.
“If there was no Versailles summit, we would have organised an extraordinary European summit”, an EU source said on Wednesday 9 March, underlining the urgency for the EU27 to reaffirm their support for Ukraine (see EUROPE B12907A1) and to speed up discussions...