It was predictable, but the Flop of the EU summit on Ukraine It was more ruined than expected. The geopolitical inconsistency of the old continent is well summarized by the arrogance of Emmanuel Macronstill decided – despite the sensational failure – to represent Brussels with Vladimir Putin. The French president welcomed the leaders of six EU countries to the Elysée – Premier Giorgia Meloni, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, the Spanish one, Pedro Sanchez, that of the Netherlands, Dick Schoof, and the Premier Danish puts Frederiksen – in addition to the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the president of the European Council António Costa, the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte. The result is under everyone’s eyes.
In the first instance, the split on theSending troops to Ukraine. After Macron, British premier Keir Starmer also returned to charge, but only found closed doors. From Germany to Spain, passing through Poland. Also for Italy the dossier is not on the table: as reported byAdnkronosthe prime minister Giorgia Meloni He would have defined the option of sending soldiers to Kiev “the most complex and the least effective” in front of the other leaders. Above all without adequate “security guarantees” for Kiev, without which any negotiation would risk, according to the premier, to fail. Meloni would therefore have urged to “explore other roads” and above all to involve the United States because his reasoning “is in the Euro-Atlantic context that European and American security is based”.
If Starmer invoked Macron as long ago, sending troops to Ukraine, finding a timid opening fromHollandthe other countries have struck the hypothesis. Also last night the German chancellor Olaf Scholz He defined “highly inappropriate” to discuss the sending of soldiers. Position shared by the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez: “Unfortunately we are still at war and there are still no conditions of peace because we can start thinking about a mission in Ukraine”. Also the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto He expressed perplexity, saying that Italy is available to send troops but only in the framework of an UN mission, with the wide involvement of non -European troops. A European presence only in Ukraine, in the shooting of Russian artillery, would be a “suicide”, warned last Thursday, at the ministerial born in Brussels.
According to some officials informed about the preparations for the Paris meeting, Macron allegedly sketched the hypothesis of creating a “reassurance force” to be placed not on a future line of ceased in Ukraine, but “on here”. But at the end of the summit there was no final document and this makes it impossible to understand what the themes “excluded” by disagreements have been, and those on which instead one could work on an agreement. “Ukraine deserves peace through a position of strength. A peace respectful of its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, with strong guarantees of security. Europe takes charge of all its part of military assistance to Ukraine “, were the words of Ursula von der leyen.
Another dossier that creates divisions is that relating to United States. Yes, because the usual solons carry on an incomprehensible ideological foreclosure towards Donald Trump, above all without knowing the Washington project on the peace between Moscow and Kiev. Before the top of the Elysée Macron had a “friendly” thirty minutes dialogue with the head of the White House. The two leaders “spoke of the war in Ukraine, the meeting between European countries and the talks in Saudi Arabia among American and Russian officials”, what was known by Washington.
Meloni also focused on the involvement of the US during the summit. The premier explained that “it is in the Euro-Atlantic context that European and American security is based”. But not only. The leader of the Italian government would also be shared, on the merits, the criticisms made by the US vice president Vance. The current administration certainly “launched a lash” to the old continent, would have pointed out Meloni, remembering that “similar considerations have already been made by important European personalities”. In other words, “we must not ask ourselves what Americans can do for us, but what we must do for ourselves”.
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