Macron’s mini-summit exposes EU disagreements over Trump’s Ukraine shake-up
The discomfort shown by Giorgia Meloni, who made explicit her closeness to the US, reflects the difficulty of the community partners in finding a common strategy
“Those who go to Mar-a-Lago regularly have to be part of a strong Europe, because President Trump does not like weak friends,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned during the Munich Security Conference last weekend. Only two European leaders have so far been to the U.S. president’s Florida residence: Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orbán. And only one, the Italian prime minister, was at the Paris meeting on Monday, urgently convened by French President Emmanuel Macron to deal with the shockwaves caused by Washington negotiating directly with Russia — and without Europe — on the war in Ukraine.
