Europe tries to shore up fragile unity as it realises it cannot rely on US
by Jon Henley Europe correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6VBC2)
Leaders arrive at Paris summit for urgent talks on Ukraine after week that showed how far values have diverged
They came smiling, but the task was immense. After dozens of summits at which a hesitant and discordant EU had failed to agree on anything like a cohesive plan for the end of the war in Ukraine, this one had, suddenly and vitally, to be different.
The leaders of France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain and - speaking for the Nordic and Baltic states - Denmark, plus Britain's prime minister and the heads of Nato and the European Commission and Council, arrived in Paris reeling from a historic week.
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