The meeting of European leaders this Monday in Paris, comes a few days after the American president’s call to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and their decision to negotiate directly on Ukraine at a next summit in Saudi Arabia. He said on Sunday that a meeting with Vladimir Putin could intervene “very soon”.
“We consider that there is, consequently of the acceleration on the Ukrainian file, as a consequence of what American leaders say, a necessity for Europeans to do more, better and in a coherent way for our collective security” , said on Sunday an adviser to French president Emmanuel Macron. The transatlantic relationship crosses a particularly delicate pass, the initiatives of Donald Trump disturbing Europeans, who fear being excluded from a process on a file concerning them first.
Ukraine will enter the fourth year of war on February 24, triggered by the large -scale invasion by Russia. And its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, urged its European allies to avoid an agreement forged by the Americans “behind” kyiv and Europe. “In the short term, we will have to guarantee that peace in Ukraine is sustainable. And in the short term, the Americans will most certainly review their level of commitment, including geographically, in NATO: it calls on our part a real awakening, and even a leap forward, to take our place in The security of the European continent, ”summed up on Sunday the chief of French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot on the LCI channel.
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