{"id":23707,"date":"2026-09-03T04:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/23707\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T04:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:22:07","slug":"germany-france-and-poland-to-meet-in-weimar-for-talks-amid-russia-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/23707\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany, France and Poland to meet in Weimar for talks amid Russia row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland plan to discuss joint approaches to current international challenges on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A spokesman for Germany&#8217;s Foreign Ministry in Berlin announced that the agenda for the meeting, held in the so-called Weimar Triangle format, covers topics ranging from hybrid threats and the situation in the Middle East, to EU enlargement and a reform of EU foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hybrid threats are understood to mean a combination of military, economic, intelligence and propaganda measures, which can be used to influence public opinion. State-sponsored cyberattacks are included in this category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul met his EU counterparts in the Irish town of Wicklow on Wednesday, including his counterparts from France and Poland, Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot and Rados\u0142aw Sikorski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Ireland, the focus was on reactions to the German government&#8217;s attribution of responsibility to Russia for the attempted attack on August 4 at Leipzig airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Weimar Triangle was established in 1991 as a forum for dialogue by the then foreign ministers of the three countries in the central German city of Weimar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Initially, its primary purpose was to facilitate the integration of Poland and other Eastern European states into the European Union and NATO.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"FILE PHOTO - German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (L), French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot and Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Rados\u0142aw Sikorski (R) talk to Indian Subrahmanyam Jaishankar during the Weimar Triangle meeting at the French Foreign Ministry. (is associated with: \u00abGermany, France and Poland to meet in Weimar for talks amid Russia row\u00bb) J\u00f6rg Blank\/dpa\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/dpa_international_526\/fbfcf70bcdbc82fef6e75d7db3b3aaf6.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE PHOTO &#8211; German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (L), French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot and Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Rados\u0142aw Sikorski (R) talk to Indian Subrahmanyam Jaishankar during the Weimar Triangle meeting at the French Foreign Ministry. (is associated with: \u00abGermany, France and Poland to meet in Weimar for talks amid Russia row\u00bb) J\u00f6rg Blank\/dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland plan to discuss joint approaches to current international challenges on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[210,709,14355,2096,14352,8999,9,14354,14353,7802],"class_list":["post-23707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-eu","tag-france","tag-french","tag-german","tag-jean-noel-barrot","tag-johann-wadephul","tag-poland","tag-the-weimar-triangle","tag-weimar","tag-weimar-triangle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}