Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s foreign minister, picks up earlier suggestion of truce saying it would show if Putin were willing to start negotiations in earnest
Keir Starmer says Europe ‘at crossroads in history’ and must support Ukraine
in Dublin
The Irish government has drafted legislation to remove a de facto ban on any more than 12 troops being deployed overseas as the country makes significant moves to bolster its bare and weak defence force.
European Union is a project of peace, and the project of peace means that security and defence is necessarily a priority, because peace without defence is an illusion.
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