Yeah, Leila, the issue was looming so large that it risked overshadowing the talks on Ukraine. So before they even got to work on Ukraine, they issued a statement on Greenland. France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Britain and Denmark issued a statement stressing that Greenland, quote, "belongs to its people and that only Denmark and Greenland can decide the island's future." But the statement did not condemn the U.S.' aggressive language or what some see as threats to European sovereignty. No, it spoke of, quote, collective action to protect the Arctic "in conjunction with NATO" and the U.S.
Leaders of Ukraine's allies gathered Tuesday in Paris for key talks that could help determine the country's security after any potential peace deal is reached with Russia. But prospects for progress are uncertain: The Trump administration's focus is shifting to Venezuela while U.S. suggestions of a Greenland takeover are causing tension with Europe, and Moscow shows no signs of budging from its demands in its nearly 4-year-old invasion.
Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner traveled to Moscow for talks to end Ukraine war The Kremlin said the meeting was 'constructive' but no compromise had been reached Security guarantees for Ukraine and territorial concessions for Russia were reportedly the hardest sticking points in US proposal Zelenskyy makes his first official visit to Ireland Russia and Ukraine continue to dispute whether the town Pokrovsk is fully under Russian control
It needs a security mechanism that triggers action automatically, not after collective consultations and individual deliberations. In recent months, a new baseline idea has taken hold in European and United States debates on Ukraine: Article 5like guarantees. In March, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was the first to suggest a mechanism inspired by Article 5 of the NATO Charter, which provides for collective action in the event of an attack on a member.
In late August, Andriy Parubiy was walking down a street in Lviv, western Ukraine, when a man disguised as a delivery driver followed him and suddenly opened fire. The former Ukrainian parliamentary leader was killed in broad daylight with several shots fired. A surveillance camera captured the crime, sending shockwaves throughout the country. A debate is now underway in Ukraine about how politicians, activists, and celebrities have become targets in Russia's hybrid warfare.
she said that plans to deploy European troops to Ukraine as part of a post-conflict security guarantee were "pretty precise." "We have a clear road map, and we had an agreement [regarding US assistance] in the White House ... and this work is going forward very well," von der Leyen told the Financial Times in an interview on the matter published on Sunday.