EU and European leaders arrive for Prague summit

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STORY: The European Union and its neighbors from Britain to Turkey met on Thursday to discuss shared security and energy problems stemming from Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in a rare and symbolic summit of 44 European countries - but not Russia.

The Prague gathering is the inaugural summit of the European Political Community (EPC), a format that is a brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron and brings together the 27 European Union members with 17 other European countries. Some of them are waiting to join the bloc while another, Britain, is the only one ever to leave it.

The gathering at the sprawling Prague Castle is seen by its advocates as a grand show of solidarity for a continent mired in multiple crises from the security fallout of Russia's war in Ukraine to dire economic consequences including an acute energy crunch.