The will of Europe not to be excluded from the deliberations about the future of Ukraine, despite not having been invited to the Alaska Summit, it will be reflected again in the videoconference called for this Sunday by the German, French and British leaders, Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer. Its objective is ‘clothing’ Volodímir Zelenski before his Monday meeting with Donald Trump, under the impact of the media Alaska meeting between the US president and the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin.
While the media valuations on the meeting in Anchorage occur, with the general consideration that the winner was Putin, Merz, Macron and Starmer intend to gather in virtual format the Volunteer coalitionas the group of Western allies of kyiv is known. It will be the second videoconference in this format in a few days, after which took place last Wednesday with the participation of Zelenski with Merz from Berlin. It was a hybrid meeting, between the virtual and the face -to -face, in which the leaders of Poland, Finland and Italythe president of the European Commission CE, Ursula von der Leyen, that of the European Council, António Costa, and the NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte. Trump was joined below, to which another virtual round followed, already without the US president, with members of the volunteer coalition, including the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez.
To Sunday’s videoconference is Confirmed the participation of von der Leyen. It will be predictably one new European cohesion exhibition, as was the statement that the president of the CE and the partners who have erected at the spearhead in this process -the convening France, Germany and the United Kingdom, more Finland, Italy and Poland, signed this Sunday. The statement insisted that there can be no agreements ‘without counting Ukraine’, said they will maintain pressure on Moscow and recalled that the borders ‘cannot be modified by force’.
Merz positivism against Danish hardness
They also appreciated efforts for Trump’s peace. Along these lines, Merz valued positively that Trump’s territorial concessions’ have not been produced in Alaska. In an interview with the German public television, the German leader thanked that the US president directly informed the European part of the results of his meeting with the head of the Kremlin. “That means that the United States continues on board, also for the future,” he said.
These valuations contrast with the harsh words of the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, whose country exercises the presidency of the European Council, for whom in Alaska it was clear that Putin does not want peace. “I don’t think we should give Putin any credibility. (…) I am among those who believe that in front of Moscow only one military victory will help us,” said the Danish leader. Denmark is in the block of community partners most committed to the Support to Ukraine and with the need to rearm to Europe.
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