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 "title": "Von der Leyen Proposes a European Article 4, a European Security Council and a Strategic Enablers Instrument",
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 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStrasbourg, 16 September 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * In the State of the Union address on 16 September Ursula von der Leyen proposed \"Europe's own Article 4 – or an Emergency Security Protocol\": \"When triggered by one Member State, all Member States would convene. To coordinate a European response. To deter further escalation. And to mitigate the impact\"\n * She framed it as \"a mechanism to flank NATO's 'Article 4'\" for incidents \"which fall below armed aggression but clearly threaten our",
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