{"id":103149,"date":"2026-06-08T23:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/103149\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:31:15","slug":"europe-ready-to-take-the-reins-from-us-in-talks-with-putin-says-berlin-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/103149\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe ready to take the reins from US in talks with Putin, says Berlin \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a joint statement on Sunday, Merz and his counterparts in France and the U.K. \u2014 together with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/joint-e3-leaders-statement-with-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-of-ukraine-7-june-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">called for<\/a> \u201cdirect dialogue between Ukraine and Russia with active U.S. and European participation\u201d and set out five conditions to achieve peace, including an immediate and complete ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>The current contact line between Russian and Ukrainian forces must be the starting point for negotiations, the statement read, and Ukraine must have \u201crobust and legally binding\u201d security guarantees in place. Russian assets must remain frozen until the Kremlin \u201cceases its war of aggression and compensates Ukraine for the damage caused by the war,\u201d it also read.<\/p>\n<p>European leaders will further discuss their approach to potential peace talks at a G7 meeting in Evian and during a European Council summit in Brussels next week, Kornelius said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need the broadest possible support from all European partners in order to actually push toward peace,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear, however, whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to sit down with European leaders, who were excluded from direct negotiations despite having long sought a greater role in shaping a possible resolution to the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Europeans countries, and particularly Germany, have become Kyiv\u2019s biggest military supporters and would likely take a tougher line in negotiations with Moscow than their U.S. counterparts. Zelenskyy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pfseb726.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me\/L0\/https:%2F%2Fwww.president.gov.ua%2Fen%2Fnews%2Fvidkritij-list-prezidentu-rosijskoyi-federaciyi-vid-preziden-104769\/1\/0102019e990c0922-47eb2b21-b7bb-4aab-9d55-ad2afeae7d72-000000\/sqrjHjLyZqCGGmeOnmLJPlzUK_o=473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sent an open letter<\/a>\u00a0to Putin last Thursday urging him to meet to end the fighting, but Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/vladimir-putin-to-volodymyr-zelenskyy-letter-no-peace-talks-dont-call-me-old\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brushed off<\/a> the plea the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a joint statement on Sunday, Merz and his counterparts in France and the U.K. \u2014 together with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,234,235,190,3654,238,241,294,76,4583],"class_list":["post-103149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-france","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-negotiations","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116717098557166480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}