Tusk says European leaders heading to London to discuss joint plans on defence – as it happened

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The London summit is understood to be still in planning and would serve as a forum for European leaders to get debriefed on both Macron and Starmer's conversations with Trump during their respective visits to the White House and to consider implications for European and Ukrainian security.

It so happens that Starmer is due to speak in UK parliament in the next half hour, so we could get an official confirmation of what Tusk said.

I hope that this greater [defence] mobilisation of Europe, of member states and Europe more broadly, will become a fact.

[Before meeting at the next European Council,] we will be in London on Sunday, together with our British friends and a group of leaders, to talk about these joint plans on defence.