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Leaders Due To Begin Arriving At Brussels Summit-Focus On China, Russia

NATO

Leaders are due to begin arriving at today's NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium from 1030CET (0430ET, 0930BST).

  • Live stream of leaders arrivals and doorstep summit can be found here.
  • Several major topics set to be discussed and meetings due to take place.
    • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has two important bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit: one with US President Joe Biden and the other with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
    • Leaders to discuss Russia at a time when NATO Sec-Gen Jens Stoltenberg has stated that "The relationship between NATO and Russia is at a low point, the lowest point since the end of the Cold War,"
    • Bloomberg reporting that NATO leaders will declare China's foreign policy ambitions as a 'strategic challenge' to the alliance, although this is as-yet unconfirmed.

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