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NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says he has convened a meeting between the leaders of Turkey and Sweden on the eve of a summit next week to push Stockholm's stalled membership bid. "On Monday, in Vilnius, I will convene a meeting with President Erdogan and Prime Minister Kristersson, as the next step in this process," Stoltenberg says after talks at NATO headquarters with foreign ministers from the two countries. SOUNDBITE
The heads of state of the 27 European Union countries and the leaders of the EU's institutions hold a roundtable meeting in Brussels for a European Council summit to discuss the war in Ukraine, migration and a response to the US's massive subsidy plan, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). IMAGES
EU leaders including Charles Michel, President of the European Council and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, meet for a round table on day two of an EU summit in Brussels centring around putting in place a roadmap on energy prices. IMAGES
EU leaders gather in Brussels for a summit as they clash over how to ride out Europe's energy shock, with France and Germany at loggerheads over imposing a cap on gas prices pushed skywards by the war in Ukraine. IMAGES
President Sauli Niniisto of Finland and Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson of Sweden meet with their Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of a NATO summit in Madrid in a bid to get Erdogan to drop objections to them joining the US-led defence alliance. Erdogan has refused to greenlight the applications from the Nordic pair despite calls from his NATO allies to clear the path for them to enter. IMAGES
The heads of state of the 27 countries of the European Union arrive for a roundtable meeting during an extraordinary summit, in which the the conflict in Ukraine and the supply of Russian gas will be discussed. IMAGES