Speaking for Europe key issue as leaders meet
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Deciding who speaks for Europe in the event of peace negotiations with Russia is shaping up to be a key issue in today's EPC meeting, with perhaps more focus on the issue when 27 EU leaders meet separately tomorrow at the Convention Centre.
As the largest diplomatic undertaking in Irish history is under way, Taoiseach Micheál Martin is hosting the ninth European Political Community summit in Dublin.
The EPC was set up in 2022 as an informal forum for leaders to hold political and strategic discussions on issues of shared concern, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Who will represent Europe at any peace talks has become a key talking point.
Deciding who speaks for Europe in the event of peace negotiations with Russia is shaping up to be a key issue in today's EPC meeting, with perhaps more focus on the issue when 27 EU leaders meet separately tomorrow at the Convention Centre.
There has been a debate at EU level over the past two years over who should speak for Europe once a ceasefire is achieved.
That debate has now been heightened by US President Donald Trump's announcement that an overarching deal could be in the mix with Russia that would reshape Europe’s post-Cold War security architecture.
Senior EU and NATO figures have been aghast at any notion of a deal between the Trump administration and the Kremlin that might tamper with the settled security architecture of the Continent.
This is in light of President Trump relaxing sanctions on Russian diesel and a slowdown in the Starlink and Starshield satellite service which prohibited Ukraine from defending itself against Russian ballistic missile and jet-powered drone attacks (Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky this morning complained that the service had once again been slowed).
"We need to have the Europeans at the table," Mr Kushner said in Abu Dhabi after two days of talks between US, Ukrainian and Russian delegations.
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