“Yesterday we gathered at the Council of Europe meeting in Brussels. We discussed EU support for Ukraine and the global impact of the war. UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi also participated in the discussions. The second main topic of the day was measures to strengthen Europe’s long term competitiveness. Europe and its partners need to convince the international community and especially the global South that supporting Ukraine is about defending an international rules-based system. Today we continue with the Euro Summit. Its topics are the economic situation in the euro area and political coordination. Before the European Council, I met colleagues at the PES meeting of European Social Democrats, which was also attended by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.