Today, the Defence Ministers of the European Union are convening for an informal meeting in Brussels. We understand that the ministers will discuss the EU’s military support to Ukraine, the military crisis management and defence readiness of the EU and defence financing. This meeting largely extends the Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting that took place yesterday. Just how vital are these back to back meetings? For more on this we are joined by ……

GUEST (France): Professor John Keiger, former Research Director of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge