{"id":380838,"date":"2025-08-28T19:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/380838\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:23:11","slug":"putin-zelenskyy-summit-wont-happen-says-germanys-merz-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/380838\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin-Zelenskyy summit won\u2019t happen, says Germany\u2019s Merz \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said direct talks between Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine&#8217;s Volodymyr Zelenskyy wouldn&#8217;t happen, even as the Trump administration continues to push for a peace deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike what had been agreed between President Trump and President Putin last week, when we were together in Washington, it is obviously not going to come to a meeting between President Zelenskyy and President Putin,\u201d Merz told reporters before a dinner with France&#8217;s Emmanuel Macron at Fort de Br\u00e9gan\u00e7on, the leader\u2019s summer residence.<\/p>\n<p>Trump earlier this month, following a meeting of European leaders at the White House, said he had arranged a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy, though Moscow later moved to cool expectations that such a summit would take place imminently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said direct talks between Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine&#8217;s Volodymyr Zelenskyy wouldn&#8217;t happen, even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[473,34,2000,299,36,1945,1824,2199,811,10243,657,49,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-380838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-friedrich-merz","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-italy","16":"tag-security","17":"tag-sergey-lavrov","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-vladimir-putin","21":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","22":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115108027010261028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380838","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=380838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}