{"id":693142,"date":"2026-01-13T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693142\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:29:10","slug":"europe-leaders-push-for-talks-with-russia-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693142\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe leaders push for talks with Russia on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European leaders proposed talks with the Kremlin, highlighting a fracture on the continent over how to end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, both notably Atlanticist and strongly opposed to Moscow, are behind the push. <\/p>\n<p>They argue that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/brussels-playbook\/talking-to-the-enemy\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it is important to play at least a role<\/a>\u201d in discussions, one French official told Politico, to ensure that the EU\u2019s own red lines aren\u2019t crossed, though the EU itself and hawkish Eastern European capitals are opposed. <\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s threats to take over Greenland have further pushed Europe to establish its own position, although the unity is, as usual, threatened by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-france-clash-us-weapon-90-billion-loan-ukraine\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a clash between Paris and Berlin, this time over defense spending<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European leaders proposed talks with the Kremlin, highlighting a fracture on the continent over how to end Russia\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-693142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115887798144850178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693142","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=693142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}