{"id":467108,"date":"2025-10-02T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/467108\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:30:15","slug":"not-even-threat-of-war-stopped-eu-summit-becoming-a-talking-shop-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/467108\/","title":{"rendered":"Not even threat of war stopped EU summit becoming a talking shop \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s more, it is not clear that any of those plans will be ready to be signed off when the 27 leaders next meet in Brussels at the end of October. Questions still hang over each of the policies and there was insufficient time to work through them, said the three diplomats and officials.<\/p>\n

European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa, who chaired the meeting, said that the session had been urgently needed \u201cto prepare decisions for the security of our continent\u201d and that leaders needed be ready to agree them in just three weeks. <\/p>\n

Officials immediately played down the chances of the summit ever leading to concrete results. \u201cThere was never an expectation there would be a decision on these things overnight \u2014 they are complex issues that touch on national sovereignty,\u201d said a fourth official briefed on the leaders\u2019 discussions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018They are testing us\u2019<\/p>\n

However, the indecision stood in stark contrast to the threat. Even as leaders debated the issue, Germany \u2014 whose chancellor, Friedrich Merz, lambasted the drone wall in the room \u2014 was forced to confirm that drone sightings<\/a> had been reported over its own critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n

A second part on the agenda focusing on support for Ukraine was delayed and squeezed into just one final hour.<\/p>\n

Costa was due to present much-vaunted plans, first reported by POLITICO, to streamline EU rules to speed up Kyiv\u2019s accession process and circumvent Hungarian Prime Minister\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s veto. The push barely had time to be mentioned, two of the officials said \u2014\u00a0though Orb\u00e1n found time to blast it anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe meet at a time in which Russia has intensified its attacks in Ukraine,\u201d Denmark\u2019s Frederiksen told reporters after the summit. \u201cThey are threatening us, and they are testing us, and they will not stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the challenge on Thursday morning remains the same as it did 24 hours earlier. \u201cNow it is up to us to deliver,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s more, it is not clear that any of those plans will be ready to be signed off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[18992,11783,6659,7694,473,365,2595,34,2000,299,805,1945,1824,2190,6084,2596,48802,2597,33590,332,811,657,1781,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-467108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-airspace","9":"tag-antonio-costa","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-critical-infrastructure","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-denmark","14":"tag-drones","15":"tag-emmanuel-macron","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-foreign-policy","19":"tag-friedrich-merz","20":"tag-germany","21":"tag-hungary","22":"tag-infrastructure","23":"tag-kaja-kallas","24":"tag-mette-frederiksen","25":"tag-military","26":"tag-petteri-orpo","27":"tag-russia","28":"tag-security","29":"tag-ukraine","30":"tag-viktor-orban","31":"tag-war","32":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115301753258137031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}