{"id":613716,"date":"2025-12-05T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613716\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:41:25","slug":"macron-urges-us-european-unity-when-asked-about-alleged-betrayal-remark-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/613716\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron urges US-European \u2018unity\u2019 when asked about alleged betrayal remark \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked about the story, an Elys\u00e9e official, granted anonymity to adhere to standard professional protocol in France, stressed Thursday that Macron\u2019s office released its own summary of the exchange \u201cin which this\u00a0word [betray] does not figure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macron struck a more sanguine note on Friday, saying Washington was a welcome partner in the ongoing peace talks and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfmtv.com\/politique\/elysee\/pas-de-defiance-de-la-cooperation-emmanuel-macron-estime-que-l-unite-entre-americains-et-europeens-est-indispensable-en-ukraine_AN-202512050424.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Europe and the U.S.<\/a> \u201cmust not give in to any spirit of division\u201d on Ukraine.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome and support the peace efforts made by the United States of America,\u201d he added. \u201cThe United States of America needs Europeans to lead its peace efforts because this is happening on the European continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s call took place after the Trump administration\u00a0circulated\u00a0a 28-point peace plan \u2014\u00a0reportedly drafted\u00a0with input from the Kremlin, along with Washington envoys Steve Witkoff and Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner \u2014 that was criticized by Ukraine and European allies for being too favorable to Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent talks in Geneva, attended by European, Ukrainian and American officials, yielded an updated 19-point plan, which Russia has yet to agree to.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When asked about the story, an Elys\u00e9e official, granted anonymity to adhere to standard professional protocol in France,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1395,34,2000,299,5187,36,38,129858,660,43,332,811,7070,1771,657,49,2601,335,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-613716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-french-politics","15":"tag-jared-kushner","16":"tag-kremlin","17":"tag-macron","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-security","20":"tag-steve-witkoff","21":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","25":"tag-war-in-ukraine","26":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115666779423799856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613716","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=613716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}