Macron to FT: from Trump an electroshock, peace in Ukraine is just not a give up | EUROtoday

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Donald Trump’s return is an “electroshock” that ought to push Europe to tackle better duty for its personal security. In an interview with the Financial Times, French President Emmanuel Macron additionally states that solely the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky ought to negotiate for his nation and warns {that a} “peace that is a surrender” could be “bad news For everyone », including the United States. «The real question, at this point, is if President Putin wants in a genuine and credible way to agree on a ceased on this base. After this, it is up to Ukraine to negotiate with Russia, “Macron highlighted.

Trump, defined the French chairman, created a “window of opportunities” for a negotiated answer, during which “everyone has to do their part”, including that now it’s as much as the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to debate territorial and sovereignty points. In addition, he continued, “it is up to the international community, with a specific role for Europeans, discuss security guarantees and, more generally, the safety framework for the entire region. That’s where we have a role to play ».

On Wednesday, the president of the United States Donald Trump discussed the war in Ukraine first in a phone call with the Russian president Vladimir Putin and then with Volodymyr Zelensky, giving impetus at the beginning of the talks to end the conflict that lasted almost three years.

The phone calls came shortly after the secretary of the United States Defense Pete Hegseth had told the military allies of Ukraine in Brussels that a return to the country on the borders preceding 2014, before Russia annexed the Crimea, was unrealistic and that the United States do not see adhesion to NATO for Kiev as part of a solution. Among the Ukrainians, there was no lack of the fear that Trump was preparing to sell their country after his phone call to Putin. The US President, speaking yesterday to journalists in the White House, however reassured that Ukraine would have had a place at the table during any peace negotiation with Russia to end the war while the British Stage Starmer during a phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Kiev walked “irreversibly” towards adherence to the Atlantic alliance.

Speaking, however, of Gaza, the French president told Ft that the Palestinians would be “extraordinarily harmful”, adding that Trump’s projects on Gaza and Greenland are examples of the “excessive strategic uncertainty” in which the world is experiencing . Macron’s comment obviously refers to the shocking announcement of Trump, according to which the United States intends to remove the residents of Gaza and transform the territory devastated by the war into what the president has called a “Riviera del Middle East”. Trump additionally mentioned he wished to take management of the Panama and Greenland channel.