{"id":353816,"date":"2025-08-18T09:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353816\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:15:14","slug":"europe-lacks-plan-if-trump-pulls-ukraine-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353816\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe lacks plan if Trump pulls Ukraine support"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin following their meeting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., August 15, 2025. REUTERS\/Jeenah Moon<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is meeting Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders. The risk is the US president does Moscow\u2019s bidding by pushing territorial concessions on his Ukrainian counterpart. If so, Europe needs a firmer plan to help Kyiv face down Russia than is currently the case.<\/p>\n

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Pierre Briancon is a Breakingviews columnist, writing on European business and economics. He was previously a writer or editor at Barron\u2019s, Politico, and Breakingviews for a first stint as Paris correspondent and European editor. For the first part of his career he was a foreign correspondent and editor at Lib\u00e9ration, the French newspaper. He was also an economics columnist for Le Monde and for French public radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin following their meeting to negotiate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[124884,84730,521,124888,84731,84732,36313,84733,84734,84726,84735,84736,84749,124889,84727,84737,124879,81850,12920,124890,2000,84751,299,5187,84752,3671,84739,124880,124881,84741,124906,124902,124903,84756,84764,84754,84763,84767,124900,84761,124897,84759,84765,124899,124892,84760,84766,84755,124905,124904,84757,124908,124901,124895,124893,124891,84753,124898,124907,124896,124894,84758,124887,124886,84742,124882,67726,84728,124885,84743,84744,84729,26875,978,771,124883,84750,84745,84746,84747,84748],"class_list":{"0":"post-353816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-amers","9":"tag-anlins","10":"tag-asia","11":"tag-asxpac","12":"tag-bact","13":"tag-bisv","14":"tag-biz","15":"tag-bnk","16":"tag-bnks","17":"tag-brv","18":"tag-brvbv","19":"tag-bsvc","20":"tag-ceeu","21":"tag-cisc","22":"tag-clm","23":"tag-cmpny","24":"tag-cwp","25":"tag-de","26":"tag-emea","27":"tag-emrg","28":"tag-eu","29":"tag-europ","30":"tag-europe","31":"tag-european","32":"tag-ezc","33":"tag-fin","34":"tag-fins","35":"tag-gen","36":"tag-intag","37":"tag-mevn","38":"tag-n2amers","39":"tag-n2asia","40":"tag-n2asxpac","41":"tag-n2bact","42":"tag-n2bisv","43":"tag-n2bnks","44":"tag-n2bsvc","45":"tag-n2ceeu","46":"tag-n2cisc","47":"tag-n2cmpny","48":"tag-n2cwp","49":"tag-n2de","50":"tag-n2emea","51":"tag-n2emrg","52":"tag-n2eu","53":"tag-n2europ","54":"tag-n2ezc","55":"tag-n2fins","56":"tag-n2gen","57":"tag-n2intag","58":"tag-n2mevn","59":"tag-n2namer","60":"tag-n2nasia","61":"tag-n2pol","62":"tag-n2potus","63":"tag-n2ru","64":"tag-n2stx","65":"tag-n2ua","66":"tag-n2us","67":"tag-n2war","68":"tag-n2wash","69":"tag-n2weu","70":"tag-namer","71":"tag-nasia","72":"tag-news1","73":"tag-pol","74":"tag-potus","75":"tag-rep","76":"tag-ru","77":"tag-stx","78":"tag-topcmb","79":"tag-topnws","80":"tag-ua","81":"tag-us","82":"tag-war","83":"tag-wash","84":"tag-weu","85":"tag-xdnp","86":"tag-xpco","87":"tag-xpmf","88":"tag-xrnp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}