But the reality is that for all EU efforts – and the measures taken in recent days are certainly not meaningless – real conversations on Ukraine and the future of European security take place elsewhere.
In almost pleading tones, the leaders have set up their “principles” for a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia in the final statement of the summit. They understood the now well -used lines according to which “there can be negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine” and, rather disturbed, that “there can be negotiations which affect European security without the involvement of Europe”.
To avoid doubt, they added: “Ukrainian, European, transatlantic and global security is closely linked.” Try to tell Trump.
To be fair to the EU, they have already done so.
Kaja Kallas, the best diplomat in the EU, went to Washington last week to assert his file. But Trump’s new secretary of state, Marco Rubio, refused to take the time to meet her, in what was considered a frank snob (and far from being isolated).
Trump himself has been clear about his disdain for the EU and has not yet taken the trouble to take a detailed discussion with the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen since his return in January.
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