The heads of state and government will examine, on Thursday 21 March, the EU’s state of defence preparedness.
“Now that we are facing the biggest security threat since the Second World War, it is high time we take radical and concrete steps to be defence-ready and put the EU’s economy on a ‘war footing’”, warns the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, in his letter of invitation to the summit.
“The European Union is committed to increasing its overall defence...