The European Union must do more in the field of defence if it wants to have a geostrategic role and strengthen its strategic autonomy, President Nikos Christodoulides said upon his arrival at the informal meeting of the 27 heads of state at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, stressing that although defence is the responsibility of the member states, "there is a common European interest".
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