Ukraine is a training ground for Russia,
We are also remotely mining areas with drones. We are evacuating wounded soldiers with land drones, which they can hook themselves to. We are taking out ships with underwater drones,
We will not send Italian soldiers to Ukraine."
We have no plans to send Polish troops to Ukraine, but we will provide logistical and political support to those countries that want it,
We need to put pressure on Russia, not on Ukraine, as it seems to be happening in recent weeks,
President Trump is a different politician to me and different to Keir [Starmer], but the one thing I have seen is that our prime minister, Keir, is able to have that constructive dialogue, and he will do that, and he has a huge amount of integrity, and he won’t do it on the airwaves,
We are living in dangerous times. Europe’s security is threatened in a very real way,
NATO is our strongest defence pillar, and Romania remains a committed and reliable ally. We must step up investments to strengthen our defence capability. Europeans and Americans need to work closely together to achieve a just and lasting peace in Ukraine,
Well, we saw that this relationship right there between the three of them is fractured,
He got some bad advice from somebody. But it certainly was not the White House,
Everyone agrees that Ukraine can count on the continued and broad support of the G5,
Those who seek negotiations do not deliberately strike civilians with ballistic missiles. To force Russia to stop its attacks, we need greater collective strength from the world.”
In the near future, all of us in Europe will shape our common positions – the lines we must achieve and the lines we cannot compromise on. These positions will be presented to our partners in the United States.”
There will be no European troops on Ukrainian soil in the coming weeks. The question is how we use this time to try to obtain a truce, with negotiations that will take several weeks.”
No agreement has been made on what a truce looks like. But we are working together with France and our European allies to look at what is the path to how … we create a lasting and durable peace in Ukraine.”
Never has the risk of a war in Europe, in the European Union been so high … The threat keeps getting closer to us, the frontline keeps getting closer to us.”
Such a truce – on air, sea and energy infrastructure – would allow us to determine whether Vladimir Putin is acting in good faith” and gauge his attitude to “real peace negotiations”.
The Russians need to know that they're going to answer to the United States as well as to the Europeans on the ground,
Donald Trump has to choose if he wants to call himself a leader of the free world, or leader of an extortion gang. The latter is not interesting for Europe."
It seems to me that many have still not fully accepted that Trump simply does not want to play the role that Europeans want him to play,