EU Holds Emergency Talks With 13 Middle Eastern States

The EU convened 13 Middle Eastern leaders in emergency virtual talks.

“Governments worldwide are moving swiftly to contain the fallout from a sharp rise in energy costs, as global supply disruptions linked to the US-Israeli war on Iran rattle markets”

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The EU pledged emergency humanitarian aid to Lebanon for 130,000 displaced people.

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Von der Leyen insisted Europe must pay attention to reality and see the world as it is today.

The war's impact rapidly spread to global energy supply chains.

India invoked emergency powers to safeguard domestic supply.

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Japan planned to expand coal-fired power and called for G7 market coordination.

Le cercle des économistes outlined contrasting economic scenarios based on the war's duration.

“Ursula von der Leyen, at a meeting on Monday, March 9 (Esfand 18) in Brussels, attended by ambassadors of EU member states, stated that Europe can no longer safeguard the old political order of the world; an order that, according to von der Leyen, belongs to the past and will not return”

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The war exposed structural vulnerabilities in European defense, energy, and economic resilience.

Von der Leyen called for Europe to show more pragmatism.

The war's destruction of Iran's energy infrastructure unleashed environmental and health risks.

The EU Agency for Asylum prepared for up to three million people potentially fleeing Iran.

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The conflict had expanded far beyond Washington's original timetable.