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European countries clashed because of the sending of forces to Ukraine, where they held a crisis meeting aimed at reaching consensus on how to respond to peace talks to US President Donald Trump with Russia.
While the leaders in Paris met to attend the emergency meeting on Monday afternoon, Germany, Poland and Spain indicated their reluctance to send peacekeepers to the war -torn country, hours after Britain offered to put “shoes on the ground”.
President Emmanuel Macron hosted a meeting on Monday, which France was hoping to result in plans to help European countries promote defense spending, and was attended by six countries in the European Union, the United Kingdom, NATO and European Union officials.
Macron and Trump spoke before the Paris Summit.
The US European allies are racing to respond to the president’s shock of talks with Russia, which is scheduled to start in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
The Kremlin praised the discussions in Riyadh, which will not include Ukraine, as a step to restore full bilateral relations and end the war.
But Ukrainian President Foludmir Zelinski said on Monday that Kiev will not recognize the outcome of any negotiations that were excluded from it. “No one” will impose decisions on Zelinski as “the leader of a sovereign nation.”.
According to three of the officials who were briefed on preparations for a meeting on Monday in Paris, France proposed to discuss the “power of reassurance” that will be centered behind, and not on a line of stopping in the future in Ukraine.
While UK Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer said he was “ready and borrowed.[to put]Our forces on the ground if necessary. “The other countries are more frequent.
German counselor Olaf Schools, who is facing elections throughout the country on Sunday, maintained his long -term deployment of the forces, saying that the discussion was premature.
He said before the meeting: “The question now is how peace can be guaranteed without making decisions to the heads of the Ukrainian people.”
“No one is currently thinking about sending forces to Ukraine,” said Jose Manuel Albaris, Spain’s Foreign Minister, said. “Peace is still very far and for only one reason: Vladimir Putin.”
He added that any discussion on the deployment of forces or peacekeepers “must” should consider any task, who will form it, under science, with any mandate. “
Although Poland has increased significantly from defensive spending since the war began and is usually a relatively bright, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Warsaw was not ready to send forces to Ukraine.
“But we will also support, in terms of logistical services and political support, countries that may want to provide such guarantees in the future,” Tusk added.
He said: “If we fail, the Europeans, in a great spending on defense now, we will have to spend 10 times more if we do not prevent a wider war.”
On Monday, a meeting was appointed to discuss financing to increase spending on European defense and military capabilities, and perhaps through joint borrowing or what the French call other “innovative” financing methods.
Macron has long demanded the European Union to engage in joint borrowing to limit its dependence on American forces and weapons, although Germany and the Netherlands opposed such a move.
The dramatic shift in the position of the United States on Ukraine forced the positions of European leaders to develop quickly.
UNHCR president Ursula von der Lin said on Friday that she would suggest capitals to allow a temporary mitigation of the bases of the bloc related to a deficit in defense spending specifically, a plan that European Union officials have said to have widespread support across the mass.
Speaking after the meeting, Schools also supported the idea of ”escape item” for the rules of deficit in the European Union, but stopped supporting joint borrowing.
Starmer also committed to placing a “path” for defensive spending in the UK to reach 2.5 percent of GDP.
Speaking to reporters before traveling to Paris, the British Prime Minister said: “This is not only about the line of confrontation in Ukraine. It is the front line of Europe and the United Kingdom. It relates to our national security and I think we need to do more.”
The night Abboud and Bin Hall in Paris, Henry Foy in Brussels, Rafael Minand in Warsaw, Berne Jobson in Madrid, Laura Beetle in Berlin, and George Parker in London.