{"id":467297,"date":"2025-10-02T02:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/467297\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T02:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:10:12","slug":"macrons-big-european-meeting-is-turning-into-a-speed-dating-exercise-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/467297\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron\u2019s big European meeting is turning into a speed-dating exercise \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is a risk that the EPC becomes just another multilateral platform for sideline meetings, and we have many of them,\u201d said Bojana Zori\u0107, a policy analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had bigger expectations,\u201d she said, though she acknowledged that informal talks can prove useful. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2238054052-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7258368\"  \/>\u201cI can\u2019t think of a concrete, tangible result from the formal part of the EPC,\u201d said an EU diplomat. | Sebastian Elias Uth\/Ritzau Scanpix\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>While the gathering hasn\u2019t lived up to the hype set by Macron, most of those who spoke to POLITICO said it would be wrong to consider it a failure. Dialogue doesn\u2019t hurt anyone, after all. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sylvain Kahn, a professor of European history at Sciences Po in Paris, said it\u2019s important to remember that the EPC\u2019s goals were vague from the start despite the lofty language used by Macron. The initiative, he said provides an opportunity to bring\u00a0\u201call the countries that don\u2019t support the invasion of Ukraine on the same boat, which is piloted by the EU. That\u2019s smart.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A third diplomat, this one from another EU country, praised the EPC as \u201ca good framework for cooperation, which mostly allows for some publicity and consensus-building at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>France and Moldova used a previous meeting to unveil an initiative to combat disinformation, and on Thursday Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will present a new joint effort to combat drug trafficking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere is a risk that the EPC becomes just another multilateral platform for sideline meetings, and we have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[28,1442,6215,473,13071,34,6561,2000,299,5187,2440,807,7965,8720,332,811,413,657,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-467297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-buildings","9":"tag-competition","10":"tag-cooperation","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-disinformation","13":"tag-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-enlargement","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-giorgia-meloni","19":"tag-keir-starmer","20":"tag-platforms","21":"tag-resilience","22":"tag-russia","23":"tag-security","24":"tag-space","25":"tag-ukraine","26":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115302146138588936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467297","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=467297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}