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| - French President Emmanuel Macron will on Tuesday host a video summit about an EU-wide response to recent attacks in Europe blamed on Islamist radicals, his office said. He will first meet with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in Paris before both will be joined by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Council chief Charles Michel and Commission head Ursula von der Leyen via video links, the Elysee Palace said. "Some Europeans still think that this topic concerns just a few countries, mostly France," the French European Affairs minister Clement Beaune said during a visit to Vienna. "It was a great shock to all of us when we realised that the European model is being targeted," he said. The meeting comes a week after a convicted Islamic State group supporter killed four people in a shooting rampage in the heart of Vienna, which followed last month's attack on a church in Nice and the beheading of a teacher near Paris. Some of the participants in Tuesday's video call will take questions during an online news conference afterwards, Macron's office said. "We believe that this terrorist threat is a fundamental, profound and serious threat against the values that form the basis of the European project and we have no intention of showing weakness," Michel told a news briefing in Vienna where he attended a ceremony in memory of the attack victims. Beaune, also in Vienna for the ceremony, said the Frontex agency charged with protecting the EU's external borders should see its staff number boosted to 10,000 from 1,500 now. According to the French embassy in Vienna, Monday's talks by Michel and Beaune with Kurz also included possible reform of the Schengen treaty and the "European fight against online hate speech". Last week, Macron announced a doubling of the number of French border guards, and called for a "deep" revision in the rules for the Schengen area that guarantees the free movement of people across borders. leb/jh/lc
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