Budapest (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Roberta Metsola said that European leaders maintain a standing that no decisions regarding Ukraine should be made without Ukraine’s participation.
The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, remarked to journalists at the doorstep of the European Political Community summit in Budapest. “President Zelensky and President-elect Trump have spoken. They talked in September and they talked yesterday. As I engaged to President Zelensky a couple of weeks ago when we met in Brussels, we will continue to urge that no decision about Ukraine should be taken without Ukraine,” Metsola said, remarking on the issue of Ukraine and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president.
How committed is the EU to backing Ukraine this winter?
Roberta Metsola pointed indicated that the leaders of European countries are “fully committed” to this policy. “We are entering 1,000 days of war. It is not going to be an easy winter, but if we let up on Ukraine, then what would be the message? Not only to the world but especially to Putin,” she said.
How could Trump’s policies affect European trade and NATO?
President Volodymyr Zelensky reached the European Political Community summit in Budapest. At the end of October, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, who heads over the EU, asked the leaders of EU member states to the European Political Community meeting in Budapest on November 7. European leaders insisted Donald Trump from abstain trade wars, strengthen support for Ukraine and abstain from unsettling the global order following his victory in the U.S. presidential election.
Trump’s triumphs a major challenge for Europe, opening an age of huge uncertainty at a time when the continent is already wrestling for unity and its two biggest powers, Germany – whose government just broke apart – and France, are diluted. Trump’s connection with his European peers was tense and shaky for much of his first term, and his return to power brings tension over U.S. backing for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, the U.S. dedication to the NATO military alliance and the possibility of tariffs on exports to the United States.
