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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot and Daniel Boffey

Boris Johnson open to attending European Council, says source

Boris Johnson chatting to the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
Boris Johnson chatting to the French president, Emmanuel Macron. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Boris Johnson is understood to be open to accepting an invitation to attend the European Council next week when EU leaders meet to discuss the war in Ukraine, though one has yet to be extended.

A Downing Street source said Johnson would be in Brussels next week for a Nato summit, along with the US president, Joe Biden, who will attend the council meeting later that afternoon. They said it remained a possibility for Johnson to attend the council meeting – which would be a major symbolic step post-Brexit.

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