(2 Mar 2025)
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London, UK – 2 March 2025
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1. Various of exteriors of Lancaster House where leaders were meeting to discuss Ukraine
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President: ++SIDE ON SHOT++
"It is now of utmost importance to step up the defence investment for a prolonged period of time. It’s for the security of the European Union and we need in the geostrategic environment in which we live to prepare for the worst."
3. Vehicle outside Lancaster House
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President: ++SIDE ON SHOT++
(Addressing the US)
"We are ready together with you to defend democracy, to defend the principle that there is a rule of law, that you cannot invade your neighbour and bully your neighbour, or you cannot change borders with force. And it’s in our common interest to prevent future wars that we make very clear that these rules count, and that the democracies are standing up for that."
5. Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, leaving Lancaster House
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Costa, European Council President: ++SIDE ON SHOT++
"The European Union is ready to work with all our European partners and other allies in the peace plan to Ukraine that ensures a just and lasting peace for Ukrainian people. We must learn from the past. We cannot repeat the Minsk experience (Minsk agreement). We cannot repeat at all Afghanistan’s tragedy. And we need for these strong security guarantees and peacemaking goes hand in hand with peacekeeping. Then we will continue to work on to ensure a lasting peace in Ukraine."
7. Pan of exterior of Lancaster House
STORYLINE:
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Sunday the EU will present a plan to bolster the bloc’s security next week.
Speaking at the end of the summit on Ukraine defence and security in London, the head of the European Union’s executive branch said she will unveil the plan to heads of state and government during an EU summit in Brussels.
“It is now of utmost importance to step up the defence investment for a prolonged period of time. It’s for the security of the European Union,” she said.
The UK hosted the summit Sunday to shore up support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after an astonishing Oval Office meltdown with President Donald Trump that left many uncertain where the once staunch allies stood.
European Council President Antonio Costa said "we must learn from the past" as he called for "strong" security guarantees for Ukraine to be part of any agreement which ends the war.
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