{"id":440164,"date":"2025-12-11T13:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440164\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:29:09","slug":"germany-asks-us-to-join-ukraine-peace-talks-in-berlin-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440164\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany asks US to join Ukraine peace talks in Berlin \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

That includes a European proposal on potential territorial arrangements that was sent to Washington only late Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt mainly concerns the question of what territorial concessions Ukraine is prepared to make,\u201d Merz said.<\/p>\n

The invitation follows a tense call on Wednesday between Merz, France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron, Britain\u2019s Keir Starmer and U.S. President Donald Trump, in which the sides struggled to bridge differences on the direction of the peace effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump later acknowledged the friction, saying \u201cpretty strong words\u201d were used<\/a> during the conversation, an admission that highlights disagreements over the U.S.-backed approach.<\/p>\n

European leaders are racing to assert their relevance in the process amid concerns that Washington\u2019s proposals lean toward Russia and put demands on Ukraine that Zelenskyy will not be able to accept. Merz emphasized that only Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian public can determine what compromises are feasible, adding that any ceasefire must be backed by robust guarantees to avoid another Russia attack. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo peace must be made without us being involved,\u201d Merz said, arguing that Europe\u2019s security interests must be written into any deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That includes a European proposal on potential territorial arrangements that was sent to Washington only late Wednesday. \u201cIt…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":440165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,8703,156,25821,117,17723,8955,50,257,4995,273,376,67,3656,131,275,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-440164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-friedrich-merz","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-mark-rutte","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-security","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","22":"tag-war","23":"tag-war-in-ukraine","24":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}