{"id":6898,"date":"2025-02-18T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/european-leaders-meet-to-discuss-ukraine-war-as-trump-officials-prepare-for-russia-peace-talks\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T00:00:29","slug":"european-leaders-meet-to-discuss-ukraine-war-as-trump-officials-prepare-for-russia-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/european-leaders-meet-to-discuss-ukraine-war-as-trump-officials-prepare-for-russia-peace-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"European Leaders Meet to Discuss Ukraine War as Trump Officials Prepare For Russia Peace Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The leaders of many of Europe\u2019s biggest countries came to Paris on Monday in an effort to forge a strategy for their own security, as President Trump\u2019s envoys prepared for talks with Russia over ending the war in Ukraine without them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The meeting in Paris was pulled together hastily after the first visit to Europe last week by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which left European leaders alarmed by both the tone and message of the new Trump administration and what it might hold for the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">European leaders were shocked by the hostility of Mr. Vance\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/14\/world\/europe\/vance-europe-immigration-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">scathing speech in Munich<\/a> criticizing Europe\u2019s exclusion of far-right groups from power, and the sudden American plans to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/16\/world\/europe\/europe-us-russia-ukraine-talks.html\" title=\"\">begin peace talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia<\/a>, starting on Tuesday, without the presence of Ukrainian or European leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The meetings with the new U.S. officials <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/16\/us\/politics\/trump-europe-alliance-crisis.html\" title=\"\">sparked fear<\/a> that the United States wants to pull thousands of troops out of Europe, as Mr. Hegseth suggested in Brussels last week, but on a timetable that would leave Europe vulnerable to an aggressive Russia, and that Mr. Trump will cut a deal with Mr. Putin over the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEurope\u2019s security is at a turning point,\u201d said Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/1891467770115596444\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on X<\/a> after arriving in Paris on Monday. \u201cYes, it is about Ukraine \u2014 but it is also about us. We need an urgency mind-set. We need a surge in defense. And we need both of them now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The meeting, called by President Emmanuel Macron of France at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace, was an initial effort to discuss a more coordinated and collective response to the Trump administration. Mr. Macron and Mr. Trump held a 20-minute phone call before the meeting began, the French said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the meeting, the European leaders discussed what they are willing to commit to secure any peace deal over the war in Ukraine in the short term, and in the long term, how to secure the continent as it faces an expansionist Russia and the predicted withdrawal of the assurance of American support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They discussed issues including military spending and how to guarantee Ukraine\u2019s security once some sort of permanent cease-fire or peace deal is reached, including the possibility of troop commitments in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Trump officials have said that they expect the Europeans to be responsible for the main financial and military support for Ukraine in the future, but there is enormous vagueness around the whole issue. Europeans want to be at the negotiating table, if one is ever created.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a former NATO official, Camille Grand, said, \u201cEuropeans cannot reasonably be expected to provide the security guarantees for a deal they are not negotiating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the meeting, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany said that any debate now on sending peacekeepers to Ukraine was \u201ccompletely premature\u201d and \u201chighly inappropriate\u201d while the war is ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Scholz said he was \u201ca little irritated\u201d about the peacekeeping debate \u201cat the wrong time.\u201d His views are shared by Poland and Spain, among other nations, especially given the vagueness about what any security guarantee would mean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Scholz, like Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland, warned against dividing Europe from the United States despite disagreements. \u201cThere must be no division of security and responsibility between Europe and the USA,\u201d Mr. Scholz said. \u201cNATO is based on the fact that we always act together and share the risk, ensuring our security. This must not be called into question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Agreeing, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said he did not look at the American messages of the past few days as a sign of disengagement, but more as a strategy to push Europe to increase its own military spending and get more involved in Ukrainian security. \u201cWe are sending the message back that we are in it together,\u201d Mr. Schoof said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Tusk said again that Poland would not send troops into Ukraine but would support countries that chose to do so. And he warned that \u201cif someone seriously wants to talk about guarantees for Ukraine, they must be 100 percent sure that they will be able to fulfill such guarantees and obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark said that such an informal meeting is \u201cnot for decision-making,\u201d but \u201cthe most important thing from the meeting tonight is the need for all of us to step up when it comes to spending in defense. Russia is not only a threat against Ukraine but all of us.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Paris meeting comes the same day that Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/17\/world\/middleeast\/rubio-saudi-arabia-gaza-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia<\/a>. The State Department said he would be joined by Mike Waltz, the national security adviser, and Steve Witkoff, Mr. Trump\u2019s Middle East envoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They are supposed to discuss with Russian officials the future of the Russia-Ukraine war, but even those talks are more about how to set up future peace talks rather than about the substance of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was in the United Arab Emirates on Monday for a track of negotiations with Russia that is separate from the Trump administration\u2019s effort, focusing on prisoner exchanges and returning Ukrainian children from Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He reiterated that Ukraine would accept no terms negotiated between Russia and the Trump administration without Ukrainian participation, and confirmed that Ukrainian representatives would not be at the talks in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe issue of a peacekeeping contingent is being discussed in France,\u201d Mr. Zelensky told journalists in Abu Dhabi. \u201cEmmanuel told me he would share all the details,\u201d he said, referring to France\u2019s president. \u201cIf we talk about a peacekeeping contingent, then what will be its size? Where will it be deployed? Which countries will be part of it? How will they be armed? It is crucial not to lose the U.S. in this process in one way or another.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zelensky also said that when it comes to making a deal with Russia, \u201cEurope must be at the negotiating table \u2014 I don\u2019t know in what format, but this is very important for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ivo H. Daalder, a former American ambassador to NATO, said that Mr. Zelensky and the Europeans \u201chave realized they\u2019re in this boat together and can no longer rely on the U.S., and that the concern that Trump and Putin will do a deal over their heads is real.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSo they have to depend on each other, and Europeans have to decide whether to step up to help the Ukrainians continue the war, if the proposed deal is a bad one, or to throw Kyiv under the bus, which would be appeasing Putin,\u201d Mr. Daalder said. \u201cThey now realize that they have no real choice and that they have to back Ukraine, and that\u2019s what this meeting is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But already there were fissures. The Paris talks included leaders from Germany, Britain, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, as well as the president of the European Council, the president of the European Commission and the secretary general of NATO.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There was criticism from frontline European states who were not invited, with one senior Baltic official saying that Mr. Macron\u2019s initiative splits the unity of the European Union, and that the meeting should have been called by President Ant\u00f3nio Costa of the European Council, not by Mr. Macron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn public, Europeans will say we all must stand together, but this selective meeting is not a good start to a united Europe on these issues,\u201d said Mary Elise Sarotte, a diplomatic historian who wrote an influential book on the early days of NATO expansion, \u201cNot One Inch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As he often does, Mr. Macron seized on a perceived vacuum in European leadership to call this informal meeting to talk about a collective response to what many perceive as an American retreat from decades of security responsibility in Europe, in order to focus on Asia and domestic challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Macron has made calls for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/28\/world\/europe\/france-macron-european-union-reforms.html?searchResultPosition=3\" title=\"\">increased European sovereignty<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/25\/world\/europe\/france-macron-far-right-eu.html\" title=\"\">capacity for self-defense<\/a> a hallmark of his presidency, which he has sometimes called \u201cstrategic autonomy,\u201d less reliant on Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This meeting was expected to be the first of many among European leaders in the coming weeks, an adviser to Mr. Macron said, adding that the meetings would include other countries in the future. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Sunday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2025\/02\/16\/sir-keir-starmer-british-troops-ukraine\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an article published in The Daily Telegraph<\/a> that he was \u201cready and willing to contribute to security guarantees to Ukraine by putting our own troops on the ground if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the meeting, Mr. Starmer said for any European deployment \u201cthere must be a U.S. backstop, because a U.S. security guarantee is the only way to effectively deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Macron has been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-emmanuel-macron-poland-donald-tusk-to-discuss-ukraine-peacekeeping-force\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">speaking for months<\/a> to European leaders about forming a cease-fire buffer force in Ukraine to ensure that any peace deal with Russia is maintained. But his original idea was to have European forces far from the front lines, to help Ukrainians with training and logistics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-trump.html\" title=\"\">Military experts have said<\/a> that it is first necessary to decide what kind of force is required, with what kind of resources, and what happens if they are attacked by Russia. This is why European leaders have said that they must have guarantees of American involvement, even if American troops are not on the ground, for key weapons systems, air defense, air cover, satellite intelligence and the like. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">European leaders also discussed the acceleration of European defense capabilities, as many <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/16\/us\/politics\/trump-europe-alliance-crisis.html\" title=\"\">now believe that the United States<\/a> will withdraw tens of thousands of American troops from Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just 23 of 32 NATO members <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/03\/world\/europe\/europe-trump-defense-budgets.html\" title=\"\">currently spend at least 2 percent of GDP on defense<\/a> \u2014 after having vowed to do so in 2014. And NATO has made it clear that 2 percent must be \u201ca floor, not a ceiling,\u201d and more must be spent. A new spending goal will be set at the NATO summit meeting this summer and is likely to be 3 percent or 3.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Andrew E. 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