Europe will present a peace plan to Trump to provide security guarantees to Ukraine

LondonBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Sunday that the United Kingdom, France "and other European countries", together with Kiev, will present Donald Trump with a peace plan in the coming days to try to convince him that the United States will ultimately provide security guarantees that will allow for a "lasting peace" in Ukraine.

London and Paris are thus becoming the essential "bridge" to rebuild relations between Kiev and Washington, after the meeting on Friday between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Republican magnate would end in an ambush against the president of a country that has been fighting for three years to maintain its sovereignty. This approach also implies that Europe is alone, and that what it does not do itself, it cannot wait for something to be done by a Washington that is increasingly inclined to satisfy Moscow's interests.

Starmer presides this morning in central London over a Meeting with 13 other European leaders During the meeting, he will convey to them the need for "Europe to step forward" to defend not only peace in Ukraine, but on the entire continent. The London-Paris axis will build a "coalition of committed states" to promote these security guarantees. After the historic diplomatic catastrophe in the Oval Office, Starmer spoke with Trump, Zelensky and Macron, and the Frenchman also spoke to his American and Ukrainian counterparts.

Peacekeepers

Both Starmer and Macron have said in the past that they are willing to send troops to keep the peace. premierHowever, he believes that the participation of the United States is essential, as he said in an interview on BBC1. "We need to find those countries in Europe that are willing to be a little more proactive. I am not criticising anyone, but, instead of moving at the pace of each member, of each country in Europe, which in the end would be a rather slow pace, I think that we probably now have to get to the coalition of the committed," he argued.

In addition to Zelensky, Starmer and Macron, the outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and the heads of government of Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Finland, Sweden, Sweden are also taking part in the meeting in London. Also attending are NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte; European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen; and European Council President António Costa. Before leaving for London, Von der Leyen pressed the participants by reminding them that "the path to peace is strength. Weakness only creates more war. We will support Ukraine while pushing for a reinforcement of European defence."