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AI video of European leaders as babies shown at political summit

This was the video that greeted world leaders meeting in Albania to discuss global affairs.

European leaders descended on Albania this morning for a meeting sure to be dominated by the war in Ukraine, but small Balkan countries hope talk of EU enlargement will also feature at the European Political Community Summit.

In a cheeky opening video clip generated using artificial intelligence, European leaders including Taoiseach Micheál Martin, French President Emmanuel Macron, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and EU chief Ursula Von der Leyen, were portrayed as babies, earning some chuckles from the leaders themselves.

The AI clip was shown to political leaders at the event's opening ceremony this morning.

The meeting, which also includes Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, took place as Ukraine and Russia were holding their first peace talks since the early days of the conflict. Other topics will include security, democracy and migration.

But it is also a pivotal time for Albania, one of Europe's poorest countries with 2.4 million people which is still trying to shrug off the lingering impact of decades of stifling communist rule and join the European Union.