Europeans are “ready” on Ukraine’s security guarantees, and await an American “support”, as the Eliseo says that will host a new summit on Thursday morning. But they are not exactly aligned.
Several chancelleries did not please the explicit reference of Ursula von der Leyen to a “roadmap” for the deployment of troops, the hypothesis supported by British and French. “The EU is not competent in the matter,” the German Friedrich Merz has noticed, who will participate in video call despite having a commitment in France on the same day, in Evian, with Emmanuel Macron. Giorgia Meloni will also intervene remotely, who has always opposed the military operation, insisting on a multilateral assistance treaty in Kiev borrowed from article 5 of NATO.
With these premises Macron is preparing to welcome Volodymy Zelensky to Paris, with whom he will have a meeting and a dinner on the eve of the meeting, which will be co-owned by Keir Starmer and will have some leaders in presence, including Von der Leyen and the Spanish Pedro Sanchez, not an assiduous participant in the meetings of the willing. “On a political level – said a councilor of the French president – the essential message that will have to pass is that we are not only willing and capable, but that we are ready. We have enough contributions to be able to tell the Americans that we are ready to take our managers”. The summit, for the same source, will serve to verify that the coalition “has the support of the Americans to ensure Ukraine’s safety”, the so -called backstop, support, logistics and intelligence. And that Washington maintains his efforts to get the truce. From the Elysée they explained that at the top there will be a representative of the USA (the secretary of state Marco Rubio is said, but it has not been specified) and that Macron “will talk again to President Trump very early”.
The first guarantee of safety on which partners agree is the support for the Ukrainian army. There is prudence on the rest, especially from Rome and Berlin. “At least in Germany there are no” concrete plans for military intervention, Merz has slowed down, clarifying that you can decide on long -term security guarantees only after a ceasefire or a peace agreement. And also in these conditions, Merz said that it would “remarkable reservations” on the use of German soldiers.
“There are still many, many obstacles to overcome, and perhaps it will also take a long time”, concluded the Chancellor, who will reiterate Geneva’s proposal as “adequate location for an agreement of ceased the fire” and will ask the willing to relaunch an invitation to the parties in question.
Similar reasoning has been made for some time at Palazzo Chigi, from where in the last few hours Meloni has faced the dossier in several international contacts, including the phone call with Dick Schoof, made known by the Dutch Prime Minister himself, who announced his presence in Paris. The Italian stakes have been explicitly explicitly, and the premier will reiterate them. In parallel to the guarantees similar article 5 NATO, there is the willingness to guarantee monitoring with radar and satellite planes, the training of military and the diminishing in international waters. But everything operating “outside the Ukrainian borders”, only once the cessation of hostilities has been reached.
The evolution of the Ukrainian scenario, together with other foreign policy themes, from the Gaza crisis to the EU-USA agreement on the duties, will be the topic on which the government will report in the Senate between 15 and 20 September, as emerged from a meeting between the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa and the leader of opposition, who in a letter had asked for a confrontation in the classroom with the Premier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani Tommaso Foti. The request was also shared by the majority. It is to be understood who will intervene for the government. The answer should arrive for the group leader that the President of the Senate intends to convene on September 10th.