engage with all of our international partners to ensure the international community is firm and stands up and is mobilised, to defend these essential principles. there you have it, a few of the key things discussed with the european council, it was anything but an anodyne meeting, farfrom banal. it was a council which took stock of the gravity of the situation which could be a turning point, that will now fall to our generation in europe, working with all our partners around the world to take wise choices in the immediate term but also in the immediate term but also in the immediate and longer terms. thank you very much. president of the commission. thank you. today s events are a watershed moment for europe. bombs are falling on innocent women, men and children. they fearfor their women, men and children. they fear for their lives women, men and children. they fearfor their lives and women, men and children. they fear for their lives and many are dying. and all of this happens in 2022
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