BRUSSELS, Sep. 7 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The European Union is preparing the first summit of the European Political Community, the format that wants to include countries of the continent to increase cooperation in security matters, next month in Prague with the presence of the leaders of the United Kingdom, Turkey and Ukraine, among others.
The Twenty-seven will take advantage of the first day of the informal summit of EU leaders in the Czech Republic on October 6 to formalize the launch of this new European political organization, to which the leaders of the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Turkey, Norway, Switzerland will be invited , Iceland, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Lichstenstein, a European official has reported.
Only leaders will attend the meeting and the idea is that they can have an open debate on strategic issues of common interest for the European continent. The format will consist of an opening plenary session, thematic discussions on security, energy, economy and mobility, as well as bilateral meetings and a dinner to close the plenary.
In any case, the situation in Ukraine and the energy crisis will take all the attention in a meeting in which the EU leaders will be able to discuss the situation with leaders such as the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the new British prime minister, Liz Truss, in a political framework beyond NATO.
This forum was formally approved at the last EU summit in June, at the proposal of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and from the outset it has had the support of the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, who has defended that in no case This political community seeks to replace the policy of accession to the EU and which will serve to advance the European path of the candidate states.
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