EU leaders sign joint statement in support of Ukraine - Europe live

It follows a similar move at the G7 earlier this week, where leaders calling on Russia to engage with the peace process

Not many other leaders showed up to offer doorstep comments this morning – and can you really blame them, after they had just a few hours of sleep?

But Ireland’s Micheál Martin popped in to tell reporters that “it’s imperative that we continue to make progress” on this budget.

“There’s some distance to go yet before, before we get there [to negotiations], but opening up channels, in my view, given our own experience in conflict resolution, is not something that we would criticise or be negative about.”
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