Foreign Affairs Council

Um, it's a little bit of a milestone today.

Uh, the UK will take part in the EU Foreign Affairs Council on development for the first time since Brexit.

Kirsty McNeil's actually doing that, uh, after seeing her Irish, um, counterpart.

But more sort of more substantively in, in relation to this visit, um, as you mentioned, this, this visit, the German visit comes after Burnham's comments, slightly indistinct comments about, uh, getting closer to, uh, the EU, but with an uncertain destination.

Absolutely extraordinary.

Now, Ukraine's Minister of Defense, reasonably new Minister of Defense, Evgeni Kamara, he was addressing EU defense ministers at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels yesterday, chaired by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and future France's fantasy Kaya Callas.

Mr. Kamara, he was dialing in via VTC.

He said, "Russia's goal has not changed: to subjugate all of Ukraine.

But we will for now stick with the subject of preserving the security of Europe and the slumber of those responsible for it.

This week's conclave of the EU's Foreign Affairs Council will ponder the establishment of what is being promoted as an emergency security protocol.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is among those keen on such an idea.

Speaking earlier this month, she pitched it as an EU analogue to Article 4 of the NATO treaty, i.e. not quite the cry havoc and let slip the dogs of etc.