EU Leaders Hold Informal Meeting in Dublin: Super Intelligence and Ukraine Top the Agenda, but Who Speaks for Europe Is Undecided
Leaders of the European Union's 27 member states held an informal meeting at the Convention Centre Dublin on November 13, with super intelligence (SI) and Ukraine as the two main topics. It was the first time SI had been placed on the agenda of an informal European Council meeting, a format that adopts no formal political conclusions. A day earlier, some 50 European leaders had attended the European Political Community summit at the same venue; Ireland currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU.
The SI discussion came in two parts: one on competitiveness, addressed by Arthur Mensch, founder of France's Mistral AI, and one on social impact and risks, with researcher Geoffrey Hinton among the speakers. French President Emmanuel Macron told the meeting that Europe's independence cannot be outsourced, that Europe has everything it needs to compete in SI, and that there is no time to waste; European SI companies, he said, must be able to raise capital, computing power and customers at home. He also announced that on December 2 he and the Dutch prime minister will convene the heads of European technology companies in Paris to push European technological autonomy.
On Ukraine, the focus was who should represent Europe at the negotiating table. On the evening of November 12, U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a military aerodrome outside Dublin; Kushner said the deal could not be concluded without the Europeans at the table, and Zelenskyy said Europe would take part directly in the next round, with the sides also preparing the largest prisoner exchange since Russia's full-scale invasion began. But Europeans remained divided over who should speak for them: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has pressed for a single representative with a clear mandate, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Luc Frieden called European Council President António Costa the natural choice, and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has also put herself forward. If no decision is reached on Friday, the question will be pushed to a special European Council meeting on November 26-27, where financing for Ukraine and the EU budget are also set to be central topics.
(Source: European Council)
Source: European Council
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：位于爱尔兰都柏林的都柏林会议中心，本届欧洲政治共同体峰会与欧盟非正式会议在此举行（资料图）。William Murphy 摄，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Convention Centre Dublin, venue of this week's European Political Community summit and informal EU meeting (file photo). By William Murphy, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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