And that speech was about as far as it went.<\/p>\n
As Tehran pounded its neighbors, disrupting Europe\u2019s energy supplies<\/a>, Kyiv attacked Russian factories repairing military planes, and Donald Trump in Washington joked about the Pearl Harbor attack<\/a> alongside the Japanese prime minister, European leaders used their talks to tinker with the bloc\u2019s carbon permit scheme<\/a>, the Emissions Trading System. It\u2019s not a wholly unrelated matter to the global energy shock, but hardly an issue where the continent could demonstrate its geopolitical might.<\/p>\n On Iran, leaders found they had little leverage or will to make any significant intervention. On Ukraine, more than four years after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion \u2015 a conflict where they do have leverage and they do have will \u2015 they were unable to overcome internal divisions to approve sending \u20ac90 billion Kyiv\u2019s way.<\/p>\n There was \u201cno willingness to get involved across the table\u201d on the Iran conflict, said a senior European government official, granted anonymity like others quoted in this article to discuss the talks behind closed doors.<\/p>\n German Chancellor Merz even complained that focusing on Iran risked shifting attention away from measures to boost Europe\u2019s flagging economy \u2014 the summit\u2019s original raison d\u2019\u00eatre before world affairs got in the way \u2014 according to three officials.<\/p>\n \u201cThe world looked very different at Alden Biesen,\u201d an EU official said, referring to last month\u2019s competitiveness-focused meeting in a Belgian castle that was meant to set the stage for this summit. That was before Iran\u2019s war and Ukraine\u2019s funding dilemma, brought about by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n going back on his promise<\/a> to approve the loan, radically reshaped the agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And that speech was about as far as it went. As Tehran pounded its neighbors, disrupting Europe\u2019s energy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,3651,912,228,2916,624,184,875,25033,814,1529,235,3653,2271,159,3270,929,4174,1112,919,823,15265,2058,238,2276,241,4882,76,25201,4038,546,17988,4583],"class_list":{"0":"post-44366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-brussels","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-carbon","12":"tag-competitiveness","13":"tag-conflict","14":"tag-crisis","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-emissions","17":"tag-emissions-trading-system","18":"tag-energy","19":"tag-exports","20":"tag-friedrich-merz","21":"tag-giorgia-meloni","22":"tag-iran","23":"tag-italy","24":"tag-kaja-kallas","25":"tag-lng","26":"tag-middle-east","27":"tag-missiles","28":"tag-natural-gas","29":"tag-oil","30":"tag-pipelines","31":"tag-qatar","32":"tag-russia","33":"tag-security","34":"tag-ukraine","35":"tag-ulf-kristersson","36":"tag-united-states","37":"tag-victor-jack","38":"tag-viktor-orban","39":"tag-war","40":"tag-war-in-iran","41":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116260716288406063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44366","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=44366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}