{"id":626605,"date":"2025-12-11T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/626605\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:40:20","slug":"germany-says-eu-proposal-on-ukrainian-territorial-concessions-sent-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/626605\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany says EU proposal on Ukrainian territorial concessions sent to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ueditor-paragraph-media ueditor-paragraph-img\" tag=\"ueditor-paragraph-media\" style=\"text-indent: 0em; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/16426601_e14b55732a2358cc6ede58474892dd8b.png\" data-id=\"7146953\" data-mime-type=\"image\/png\" data-size=\"4240413\" data-original-name=\"64bb1e12bada4f48bf029dd2a646edf3.png\" data-ext=\"png\" data-time=\"undefined\" data-save-path=\"image\/uploadpic\/20251212\/e14b55732a2358cc6ede58474892dd8b.png\" data-filename=\"e14b55732a2358cc6ede58474892dd8b.png\" data-domain=\"https:\/\/rmt-static.jfjb.com.cn\" data-width=\"2048\" data-height=\"1152\" data-describe=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display ueditor-text-tushuo\" style=\"\">German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte hold a press conference after talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, December 11, 2025. \/VCG<\/p>\n<p tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced Thursday that European leaders had sent a proposal to U.S. President Donald Trump regarding territorial concessions Ukraine is willing to make, and discussions will follow.<\/p>\n<p tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">Speaking to reporters alongside visiting NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Merz said the proposal followed a phone call the day before with French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<p tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">Merz stated that they had clearly conveyed to Trump that the question of Ukrainian territorial concessions must be first addressed by the Ukrainian president and the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n<p tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">Further talks with the American government are scheduled for this weekend, and there might be a meeting in Berlin early next week, he noted.<\/p>\n<p tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">&#8220;Whether the U.S. government will participate depends very much on the joint drafting of the papers that are currently being worked on,&#8221; Merz added.<\/p>\n<p tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">He stressed that any negotiated solution must safeguard European security interests without compromising the unity of the European Union and NATO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte hold a press conference after talks at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,10525],"class_list":{"0":"post-626605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-major"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115701929720948262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626605","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=626605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}