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Radio 4,05 Mar 2025,45 mins

EU leaders prepare for emergency security summit

The World Tonight

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As Washington confirms it has suspended some intelligence sharing with Kyiv, EU leaders prepare to hold an emergency summit in Brussels. We ask what Europe needs to do to defend itself and Ukraine, while Latvia's defence minister tells us his country could join a 'coalition of the willing' in Ukraine. Also in the programme: the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has publicly distanced herself from new sentencing guidelines, which say a defendant's faith and ethnicity should be considered when deciding on prison sentences; and rave reviews for a video game that is about managing a museum rather than shooting up enemies or driving fast cars.

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