The EU “needs to respond” to Trump’s negotiation style, the Polish foreign minister has said.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called an emergency summit of European leaders after Moscow and Washington agreed to hold Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia, sidelining the EU.
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Wednesday, marking their first known direct conversation since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.
On Saturday, the countries’ top diplomats followed up with a call to discuss “preparations for a potential high-level Russian-American summit.” Later that day, US Special Envoy Keith Kellogg stated that the EU nations would not be included in the negotiations.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski welcomed Macron’s initiative and confirmed that the summit will take place in France on Monday.
“I’m very glad that President Macron has called our leaders to Paris,” Sikorski said, as quoted by Politico, adding that he expects European leaders to discuss “in a very serious fashion” the challenges posed by Trump.
According to Sikorski, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accepted the invitation and will travel to France next week to “show our strength and unity.”
While the list of invitees was not revealed, The Guardian has reported that UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will also be attending.
Macron has previously insisted on EU involvement in negotiations, telling the Financial Times that Ukraine must lead discussions on its own sovereignty, but Brussels has a key role in discussing “security guarantees and, more broadly, the security framework for the entire region.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who previously banned his government from engaging in direct negotiations with Putin, admitted that Kiev’s representatives were not invited to discussions in Saudi Arabia either. “Maybe there is something at the table, but not on our table,” he told journalists on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
Neither a French government spokesperson nor Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot immediately responded to a request for comment when approached by Politico.
Too late Macron, the phone call was made and the deal is done! Ukraine’s rare metals and resources are going to be split between the US and Russia. Sorry you and the rest of Europe miss out. Have a nice day.
Europe has been castrated
And turned into a eunuch
Of its own volition
What for
Nothing
Hope he brings his husband with him . He looks good for being a man. Watch Candace Owen’s. He married a man.
Shows his true colours then they lie as even they are embarrassed by their own antics.
Macron , trudeu , abernease all pitiful politicians
The european gutless cretins have congregated again. Words and words and words. The only thing they can “produce”.
Europe is near bankrupcy thanks to them all and the US vulture.
About the Ukrainians minerals everybody seems to want to get its dirty little fingers on , i don t think Russia will let it happen.
It is on Russia’s territory
These people did absolutely nothing about the war for 3 years.
Trump makes a single phone call to Putin and 7 globalist countries drop everything for emergency talks.
LAWL, everything is fake and ghey