If with Donald Trump Reports do not take off, now Europe tries to fit into the Ukrainian match to try to bring a fire to a cease, if not exactly to peace, between Kiev and Moscow. After the sensational worldly dispute between Zelensky and the US president, Great Britain and France are now trying to play their cards. During the London summit, which brought 17 European leaders, Türkiye and Canada, the French president Emmanuel Macron and the British Prime Minister Keir Stormer They advanced their proposal, aiming to introduce a pause in hostility to Ukraine to stop the aerial, naval military operations and those against the country’s energy infrastructures.
The Macron-Starmer plan
During an interview with Le FigaroMacron has outlined his idea in detail, however underlining the complexity of the situation on the field and the difficulties in ensuring respect for the ceasefire along an extended border such as that of the contact line in Ukraine. Hence the intention to limit the truce to the operations “in the air, in the seas and in energy infrastructures”, therefore not on the field in Donbass. Then France And Great Britain They could guarantee an aerial mission to defend the Ukrainian skies, offering nuclear deterrence in a “autonomous” way compared to other countries. And finally a “coalition of willing” will be created to send troops on the field for a peacekeeping mission after peace signed together with the USA. Among the candidates, in addition to Paris and London, who have already expressed themselves, there could be Canada, Turkey, Poland and perhaps the Nordic countries. Italy does not. Not at the moment.
Zelensky brakes
Ukrainian president Volodymyr ZelenskyDespite being aware of the proposal, he has not yet expressed a final judgment, maintaining a cautious approach in the evaluation of the plan proposed by Macron and Starmer. Through a message on Telegram, Zelensky highlighted the crucial importance of security guarantees for the future of Ukraine and praised the unity and courage of his people, manifesting confidence in stable and lasting peace.
The 19 summit
The London summit He therefore reiterated international support in Kiev, already expressed with the leaders’ statements after Trump’s outburst to the White House, even if he did not lead to concrete decisions. Not for the moment. British Prime Minister Starmer underlined the importance of continuing to send military aid to Kiev and to increase economic sanctions to Russia; remarked the need to enhance the Ukrainian defense through a significant aid package, to discourage every future Russian invasion in case of peace agreement; And finally he suggested forming the famous “coalition of the willing willing” will send troops on the field to defend Ukraine and peace. The idea would be to define a precise plan and go to Trump to ask him to guarantee the security hat (i.e. military deterrence and intelligence on the field) necessary to formalize everything.
Small problem, or rather two: there is to convince Kiev to accept the conditions of Trump on the agreement for rare lands; And above all a project shared by all countries at the moment still is not there.
As mentioned, the most controversial point concerns the troops. According to Starmer “a number of states have indicated today that they want to be part of the plans we are developing”, but “Not Each nation will feel able to contribute“. Among those who will probably not be in the game there is Italy, given that the League does not seem willing to accept an Italian military commitment on the field.
The no of Italy
Also Giorgia Melons In fact, it remains “perplexed” on this hypothesis. Discussing with the reporters, he has a little scaled down the Starmer and Macron’s “plan”, pointing out that at the moment it is “ideas”, useful but not definitive “proposals”. “I continue to be perplexed on the use of European troops – said the Premier – beyond the fact that the presence of Italian troops in Ukraine at this stage has never been on the agenda. I see this as a solution that risks being very complex and probably less decisive than others “. Meloni’s goal is to not remove the EU from the United States too much, convinced that in the end a point of contact can be found with Trump. The goal is to organize an EU-USA summit, as soon as possible. “This is the position that Italy has carried out from the beginning and we will work to encourage a meeting to talk to us in a frankly of what we want to do and how we want to face the challenges that present themselves,” he explained. It is therefore not necessary to abandon “the Atlantic setting”, which does not necessarily mean “entry into the NATO” of Ukraine “but it may mean different options”. “I believe that the theme of article five of NATO – said Meloni – is the most effective theme of everything”.
The only certain thing about the London summit, therefore, seems to be the belief of all countries, including the European Union, to increase military spending to face a possible American disengagement. The NATO secretary said so Mark Rutte And he reiterated it Ursula von der leyenready to present an “overall plan” for the “rearmament” of the old continent.
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