The Economic summit turned into a meeting to establish the posture of the Twenty-Seven regarding the tensions between Israel and Iran. Zelensky urges the Europeans to increase their military aid to his country.
The 350 Iranian drones and missiles launched towards the Jewish state have had the effect of closing ranks. The EU's high representative Josep Borrell wanted to be optimistic about the imminent adoption of new sanctions against Tehran, according to the line also defined by Borrell. But the Europeans are far from being aligned with Israel, the European Union's foreign minister said on Tuesday. The meeting was to be devoted to the loss of competitiveness of the EU against its competitors, with the United States in the lead, and to the strategy to adopt after the European elections to put the Union back on track. It was decided that the start of the summit, Wednesday evening, would be devoted to the situation in the Middle East.