The EU plan for Ukraine is already shipwrecked. Yes, because the announcements recorded yesterday immediately turned into a flop: the one -month truce put on the table by the axis France-Gran Britain He melted like snow in the sun. But let’s go to degrees. Yesterday, among the hugs in Volodymy Zelensky, the summit between 19 European and global leaders was held in London. A rather particular summit, but in some ways useless, designed to give a first response to the shaking given by Donald Trump. “We are at a crossroads of history” the announcement of the British premier Keir Starmer, who together with the French president Emmanuel Macron I proposed a limited respite of one month “in the air, in the seas and in energy infrastructures” and not on the front line.
“Good and francs” interviews according to the leader of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, who led to An agreement on four points: military aid to Ukraine and sanctions to Russia, ensure Kiev’s sovereignty and security, increase the defense capacity of the country of Zelensky in the event of a peace agreement and set up a “coalition of the willing” to guarantee peace between Moscow and Kiev with a military contingent to send by Zelensky.
Yet, after just twelve hours, there has already been a remarkable step back on the project signed by London and Paris. According to what has been known by the Minister of the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom Luke Pollard“No agreement has been achieved” between France and the United Kingdom regarding the one -month truce proposal in Ukraine. Speaking of the plan exhibited by Macron in the interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro, Pollard explained that “at the moment it is not a plan that we recognize”. Speaking to the microphones of BBC Breakfast, Pollard has also added that “different options” are being discussed “in private” and that what matters is to elaborate a plan that leads to a lasting peace in Ukraine “as soon as possible”.
In short, The enthusiast seems to be already off. But there is more. The Starmer and Macron plan was struck down by the British press, which underlined how the first cracks have already emerged today. For the United Kingdom BBC in fact “an agreement on the ceased is still only an idea”. Doubts were also expressed by the Fili-Toy Daily Telegraph newspaper, according to which Europe has come “to a crossroads”, and “must adapt” to the “hallway” of the USA. But not only. While recognizing the efforts of Prime Minister Starmer, the UK media have emphasized the large limits of the proposal that emerged from the summit. Just think of the “coalition of willing”: any peace maintenance force would be “limited without the fireplace power of the United States”. The priority, according to the London press, is to try to mend to Washington. “The risk is that Sir Keir is instead convincing to an deployment of forces that could lead the British army to fight without the help of the United States”, the warning of the Times.
And Italy? The government line is clear: the times are not mature for the pseudo-confoluted pseudo-with Macron and Starmer. “I believe that everything should be done together, Europe and the United States must sit at a table with Ukraine and Russia to get to a just and above all lasting peace, so this is still premature to see what to do and how to do” the words of the Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani: “Meanwhile, Europe is united to guarantee the independence of Ukraine, we are friends of Ukraine we have supported it in these three years with great determination”.
The speech is simple according to the owner of the Farnesina: Europe and the United States “sit at a table with Ukraine and Russia to get to a just peace and above all lasting”. Everything must be established together, without joint escapes of any kind. Also on the speech to send some Troops in Kiev Further insights will be needed: “I believe that before talking about European military presence in Ukraine it will be necessary to reflect very carefully”. Tajani then added: “I always said it would be better, after the war, perhaps give life to a buffer area where there may be a military presence under the aegis of the United Nations with a UN Security Council decision, precisely to guarantee just and lasting peace”.
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