European leaders discuss strategic issues at European Political Community meeting

STORY: European leaders discuss strategic issues at European Political Community meeting DATELINE: Oct. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:35 LOCATION: GRANADA, Spain CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Granada city 2. various of leaders of EU member states arriving at the venue 3. various of the third meeting of the European Political Community (EPC) STORYLINE: Fifty-odd European leaders gathered in Spain's Granada on Thursday for the third meeting of the European Political Community (EPC), discussing strategic issues, especially the future challenges for the region. The topics include digitization, green transition, multilateralism and geostrategy. The leaders will consider proposals for regulating the use of artificial intelligence, review the major energy debates in recent years and reflect on the implications of the Ukraine crisis, the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) said. "There are many challenges for the European continent," European Council President Charles Michel said in

NATO expansion won't make Europe or world safer: Croatian analyst

STORY: NATO expansion won't make Europe or world safer: Croatian analyst DATELINE: June 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:27 LOCATION: Zagreb CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of NATO headquarters 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ZARKO PUHOVSKI, Croatian political analyst 3. various of military forces 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ZARKO PUHOVSKI, Croatian political analyst STORYLINE: The eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will not make Europe or the world safer, Croatian political analyst Zarko Puhovski told Xinhua in a recent interview. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ZARKO PUHOVSKI, Croatian political analyst "I don't think that Europe is going to be safer. I don't think, to be very honest, that there is a reason for NATO to exist in terms of safety. The essence is now geopolitics and geostrategy. And then we know from very old philosophical and geostrategic point of view, the essence of power is expansion. The power tends to expand almost in physical terms and therefore NATO is now trying to sh