Yiannis Palaiologos, a journalist for the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, reported on March 14, 2022, that an emergency NATO summit was being planned to coincide with the regular EU summit meeting that was scheduled to be held in Brussels the coming week.

According to Palaiologos’ multi-sourced information, there would be an “overlap” whereby non-members of one or the other of the two organizations would participate in each of the two meetings. As an example, U.S. participation at the EU summit meeting was given. The article noted, however, that a stumbling block to a joint EU-NATO summit meeting was the inability of Turkish President Erdoğan and Republic of Cyprus President Anastasiadis to sit at the same table. [Analyst Note: This is a tit-for-tat situation — The Republic of Cyprus (ROC), as an EU member, continues to thwart Turkey’s attempts to join that organization, while Turkey, as a NATO member, “prevents high-level formal meetings between NATO and the EU’s Political and Security Committee on the grounds that Cyprus does not have any security clearance from NATO.” For those whose curiosity has been piqued, please refer to https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/cyprus-and-the-nato-eu-divide/ .]

The article mentioned that, according to sources cited by CNN, White House officials were having preliminary discussions concerning the possibility of U.S. President Joe Biden traveling to Europe in the next several days amid the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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