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'Greater Europe' struggles to unite in the heart of the storm

2022-10-05T17:08:56.157Z


DECRYPTION - Shaken by the repercussions of the war, 44 countries, including Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia, meet in Prague for an unprecedented meeting.


In Prague

The leaders of forty-four countries of the Old Continent, members and non-members of the EU, aspiring to become one or not, are expected in Prague on Thursday to participate in the very first meeting of the European Political Community (EPC).

An unprecedented closed session which precedes the informal summit of the Twenty-Seven scheduled for the next day.

This new format, pushed since last May by Emmanuel Macron

,

is supposed, according to the formula of the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, to

"bring together"

all the countries of "greater Europe" with the exception of Russia and Belarus. , at a time when the continent is going through its worst crisis since the Second World War.

“With the war in Ukraine, neither security, nor democracy, nor the economy are guaranteed.

There are fragmentations in all directions.

Hence the need to think about what we could do together”,

justifies an EU diplomat.

“What happened last week on Nord Stream 1 and 2 is the best illustration…

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Source: lefigaro

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