UK defence secretary John Healey, who played a central role in talks this week leading Europe’s push back against the new American policy, also repeatedly said: “No negotiations about Ukraine without Ukraine.”.
Given that historical background, it is only understandable that confronted with the prospect of Trump’s peace talks on Ukraine with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, this time happening behind their backs and with no clear guarantees about the role and the importance of Ukraine’s position in all of this, many European leaders feel deeply uneasy.
EU foreign policy chief and former Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas, was clear with how she saw Trump’s plan to decide the future of Ukraine in talks with Russia, potentially without the involvement of Europeans.
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz claimed last night that he had some early briefing on what is going to be in Vance’s speech, and said he expected “a brutally hard message” and a “confrontational speech”.
Shortly after the suspected attack, Bavaria’s interior minister Joachim Herrmann suggested that the suspect’s asylum application was rejected, and that he was known to the police in connection with shoplifting and drug offences.
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