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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
Even supporters of the European Union of that immense late 20th century project to weld the countries of Europe together in common endeavour.
Even supporters would say that the now 27 member state club can move at a slow, lumbering pace.
But these days, the EU is facing the truth that that will no longer cut it.
Donald Trump's arrival in the White House has ripped up the old foundations, which is why today there's another emergency summit, this time of EU leaders in Brussels to try to agree a huge boost to defence spending across Europe and then make that happen as fast as possible and even faster than how best to support Ukraine in the face of a US halt to military aid and the pressure from Washington for Kyiv to make peace with Moscow.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is a leading voice in all this, and he had some strong things to say on the eve of the summit in a televised address to the nation.
As soon as next week, we will gather in Paris the army chiefs who will take responsibility for this matter.
And so this is a plan for a solid, lasting, verifiable peace, which we have prepared with the Ukrainians and several European partners, and which I defended in the United States two weeks ago and across Europe.