Europe: Anti-Putin coalition assembles in Granada | DW News |

Two summits in the Spanish city Granada, held back-to-back. First, on Thursday, 47 European states -- all of them except Russia and Belarus -- will gather as the European Political Community (EPC), a forum inaugurated last year in Prague as an alliance against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.



Then, on Friday, comes an informal meeting of the 27 EU member states, themselves confronted with a mountain of problems -- first and foremost migration management.

Political 'speed dating'

No formal decisions will be taken at either summit this week. The European Political Community in particular, set up by French President Emmanuel Macron, is a relaxed gathering with no clear structure.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has warned that the EPC could not become another waiting room for EU candidate, and stressed that accession talks needed to continue regardless. Negotiations are currently underway with Albania, Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia, while Bosnia-Herzegovina is a candidate for accession talks. Kosovo and Georgia are only potential candidates.

There is no off-ramp after the disastrous year of 2021 failing to stop Joe Biden from taking the EU into a war against Russia. Decades in the making. No courage, no leadership just lemmings.

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