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Video: EU leaders scramble to defend Europe at Brussels summit - live with Dave Keating and Luke Johnson

Dave Keating from the Gulf Stream Blues substack and Luke Johnson from the Public Sphere substack talk about the different perspectives on European rearmament in Brussels and Berlin.
Cross-post from Gulf Stream Blues
Hi Readers, Earlier today, I did a live video with Dave Keating on the latest developments in European politics. Dave spoke from the European Council in Brussels, and I was live from Berlin. In the discussion, we spoke about the mammoth German rearmament package, the EU-wide Rearm Europe initiative, as well as the partial Ukraine ceasefire and how leaders are figuring out a strategy to deal with Donald Trump. -

EU prime ministers and presidents are meeting for yet another summit in Brussels to deal with the collapse of the transatlantic alliance - their third in a month. On the table is the massive Rearm Europe plan put forward by President Ursula von der Leyen, which was fully spelled out in a white paper put forward yesterday. Controversially, the €150 billi…