European leaders are meeting in emergency and regular summits in Paris (recently held), London (scheduled for Sunday), and days after, discussing defense spending increases, changes to European Union fiscal rules to allow higher spending, and potential seizure of frozen Russian sovereign assets to fund Ukraine and free up money for European armies.

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Shashank Joshi

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there was an emergency Summit in Paris couple of weeks ago there's one in London on Sunday there'll be another one a few days after that and a lot of this is about discussing more defense spending

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Ode to dread: Europe after TrumpThe Economist
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:02:23 AM

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