Europe live: EU leaders meet for second day as Polish PM criticises gap between defence rhetoric and action

European leaders to focus on future of European economy as Donald Tusk says if words were bullets, Europe would have the world’s strongest power

Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, has issued another one of his sharply-worded posts criticising Europe’s approach to defence.

“If all the words that were said in the last years here in Brussels about common defence, could be changed into bullets and rocket launchers, Europe would have become the strongest power in the world. And the safest place,” he said.