European Political Community - 1 - International Summit
12 November 2026
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Council of the European Union European Council
Follow its sittings00:22 - 01:46
Speaker 3
Good morning. First of all, looking forward to welcoming our leaders from the EPC to Dublin this today. An important meeting of the EPC, established since 2000, 2022, credit to Emmanuel Macron at the time, obviously, in the context of geopolitical turmoil, war on the continent of Europe, and also the need for greater coherence. European leaders who are members of the European Union meet regularly. The benefit of the EPC is it broadens all that to many other countries within the European continent and beyond.
Canada is arriving today as well, which enables us to deal with some fairly fundamental issues. The theme today being a more connected European continent, connected in the sense of both people-to-people connections, but physical connections, technological connectivity, and, of course, energy. These are big topics for all countries, and when countries come together, we can develop common solutions to those particular problems and to those issues, be it affordable energy, be it security and protection, particularly in terms of the technological attacks that are happening on a regular basis, and also in terms of economic security, critical raw materials, rare earth minerals, and how do we collectively make sure that there's security for people in respect of those issues.
01:46 - 01:58
Speaker 5
Taoiseach, do you expect progress today on securing a single, coherent European voice that will represent Europe in any future talks with the Russian Federation?
01:58 - 02:26
Speaker 4
That will probably be discussed in the margins, but it will be more formally discussed tomorrow at the informal EU Council meeting during the lunch period. And so, we would like to see some progress on that, certainly. And, but I think today will be, I think, Ukraine, Moldova will feature significantly today. There will be a meeting of the Friends of Moldova Group and the Friends of Ukraine, and also, of course, the broader issues that I've just touched on there will be.
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