Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service. Coming to you live from our studios in central London. I'm Julian Marshall.

Ukraine is expected to dominate the Munich Security Conference with European leaders, trying to make sense of President Trump's peace plan for Ukraine,

which seems to involve Russia keeping the territory its gains through the invasion of its neighbor

and Ukraine blocked from joining NATO.

So there was a lot of expectation that the US Vice President J.D. Vance

might give them more details of the American proposals when he made

his keynote speech to the conference earlier on today, except that he didn't elaborate.

We gather at this conference, of course, to discuss security, and normally we mean threats to our external security.

I see many great military leaders gathered here today.

But while the Trump administration is very concerned with European security

and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine,

and we also believe that it's important in the

coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense. The threat that I

worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external

actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within.

And Mr. Vance went on to launch into a fiery broadside against Europe

for what he claimed was its retreat from some of its most fundamental values.

Through restrictions on free speech, content moderation rules online,

and political firewalls against radical parties.

He also urge European leaders to listen to voters' concerns about uncontrolled migration

rather than running scared of them.

But the crisis this continent faces right now,

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