Europe remains divided on how to support Ukraine and shore up its defenses in the face of Russian aggression, as emergency summit talks ended without a consensus on Thursday.
A statement on Ukraine was signed by all but one of the 27 EU members with a lone country — believed to be Hungary — holding out.
As leaders pledged to ramp up defense spending, the main European powers couldn’t agree on what exactly that support for Ukraine might look like and how Europe should adapt to what many see as a new world order under President Trump.
“Europe is weak without the United States,” Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov told reporters on Thursday. He added that he hoped “the US remains committed to our collective security, which is based on shared values.”
However, there was a major point of contention between the European nations over the seizure of some $227 billion in frozen Russian central bank reserves that have been held in Europe’s financial system since the start of the Ukraine war.
Ukraine — as well as some of its neighboring Eastern European countries, such as Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — have called for the seizing of Russia’s money to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction.
But officials from Belgium, France and Germany have warned that several legal obstacles stand in the way and that such a move could undermine confidence in the euro currency.
“I advocate great caution when it comes to those frozen assets,” Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever said at Thursday’s summit in his country.
"as per NYPost" Kudos to Sorter, for bringing sauce - (the mark of a more serious poster).
But I guess I'm a bit surprised when frogs do not even bother to do that. Just copy/paste a tweet, even when the actual sauce is there begging to be referenced and illuminated.
Here, apparently, is the sauce:
https://nypost.com/2025/03/06/world-news/ukraine-summit-in-brussels-ends-with-no-consensus-after-emergency-talks-falter/
Europe remains divided on how to support Ukraine and shore up its defenses in the face of Russian aggression, as emergency summit talks ended without a consensus on Thursday.
A statement on Ukraine was signed by all but one of the 27 EU members with a lone country — believed to be Hungary — holding out.
As leaders pledged to ramp up defense spending, the main European powers couldn’t agree on what exactly that support for Ukraine might look like and how Europe should adapt to what many see as a new world order under President Trump.
“Europe is weak without the United States,” Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov told reporters on Thursday. He added that he hoped “the US remains committed to our collective security, which is based on shared values.”
However, there was a major point of contention between the European nations over the seizure of some $227 billion in frozen Russian central bank reserves that have been held in Europe’s financial system since the start of the Ukraine war.
Ukraine — as well as some of its neighboring Eastern European countries, such as Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — have called for the seizing of Russia’s money to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction.
But officials from Belgium, France and Germany have warned that several legal obstacles stand in the way and that such a move could undermine confidence in the euro currency.
“I advocate great caution when it comes to those frozen assets,” Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever said at Thursday’s summit in his country.
<omitted> See sauce for full article
Ireland is supposed to be Neutral, but our treasonous civil servants are EU puppets.
Our current “leader” a career civil servant and ex schoolteacher declared recently in our parliament that “sovereignty is an outdated concept”.
This is what we are dealing with. An organised international fifth column of compromised marxist satanic scum.
I don't think we have as many shared values as they think we have. Europe has begun to live the Marxist Utopian dream.
Bye Felicia
"as per NYPost" Kudos to Sorter, for bringing sauce - (the mark of a more serious poster).
But I guess I'm a bit surprised when frogs do not even bother to do that. Just copy/paste a tweet, even when the actual sauce is there begging to be referenced and illuminated.
I grumble. But thanks for your comment!