{"id":136145,"date":"2024-12-19T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-leaders-meet-to-discuss-ukraine-aid-syrias-transition-and-trumps-comeback\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T07:20:00","slug":"eu-leaders-meet-to-discuss-ukraine-aid-syrias-transition-and-trumps-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-leaders-meet-to-discuss-ukraine-aid-syrias-transition-and-trumps-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"EU leaders meet to discuss Ukraine aid, Syria\u2019s transition and Trump\u2019s comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136145\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Despite an agenda packed with hot-button topics, the summit of EU leaders is not expected to yield any breakthrough. The 27 leaders of the European Union are on Thursday meeting in Brussels for a one-day summit with a remarkably busy agenda that will touch upon Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, Syria&#8217;s transition of power, continued protests in Georgia, new ways to reinvent migration policy and the survival guide for the upcoming Donald Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the first summit chaired by Ant\u00f3nio Costa since he assumed the presidency of the European Council on 1 December as part of the bloc&#8217;s new legislative cycle. French President Emmanuel Macron will not attend due to the catastrophic situation in Mayotte after Cyclone Chido and will be represented by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the packed list of topics, the high-level gathering is not expected to deliver a breakthrough on any of them. Instead, talks will aim at consolidating the work done at a lower level and focusing minds in a period of extreme uncertainty for Europe. The long day will begin with Ukraine, the top priority for leaders, and an in-person intervention from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who will make the case for more military support and stronger sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy estimates his country needs over a dozen air defence systems, which are crucial for protecting Ukrainian cities and power plants against Russia&#8217;s relentless bombarding. The Ukrainian leader broached the topic on Wednesday evening during a meeting hosted by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and attended by a select group of EU leaders, including Italy&#8217;s Giorgia Meloni and Poland&#8217;s Andrzej Duda. &#8221;It\u2019s a very good opportunity to speak about security guarantees for Ukraine for today and for tomorrow,&#8221; Zelenskyy said, standing next to Rutte. &#8221;It&#8217;s very important to use these two days in Brussels to meet with all our partners and have the same \u2013 what is very important \u2013 not divided (but) the same joint position of Europe on how to secure Ukraine, how to strengthen us, our people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The summit comes at a perilous time for Kyiv, with Russian forces gaining ground in the East and North Korean soldiers fighting in the Kursk region, some of whom have already been killed, according to US and Ukrainian officials. North Korea&#8217;s participation, estimated to be around 11,000 men, has expanded the war&#8217;s scale and thrown Russia an essential lifeline to make up for its heavy losses on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy has warned North Korea&#8217;s deployment could grow to 100,000 soldiers. After the Ukrainian president leaves the room, heads of state and government will turn to an abstract-sounding discussion titled &#8221;The EU in the world&#8221; that will essentially deal with Donald Trump&#8217;s return to the White House, scheduled for 20 January.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s comeback has compounded the EU&#8217;s profound sense of anxiety, with growing fears the Republicans will soon push for a rushed arrangement to end the war that would entail painful territorial concessions for Kyiv and greater military responsibility for Europeans \u2013 possibly in the form of a peacekeeping mission. Trump&#8217;s repeated threat of slapping foreign goods with across-the-board tariffs is also adding to the unease. Restrictions on America&#8217;s wealthy market could send the bloc further down the spiral of economic stagnation and industrial decline.<\/p>\n<p>The talks, though, will not produce a detailed manual on how to deal with the notoriously mercurial billionaire: leaders do not want to anticipate Trump&#8217;s actions before they materalise, as doing so pre-emptively might result in misguided policy choices.<\/p>\n<p>In their joint conclusions, a draft of which was seen by Euronews, the 27 will stress the principle that &#8221;no initiative regarding Ukraine (shall) be taken without Ukraine&#8221; and call for &#8221;the urgent stepping up&#8221; of military support, such as air defence systems, ammunition and missiles. The ultimate goal, diplomats explain, is to put Kyiv in the strongest possible position to prepare for future negotiations with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Europeans are strongly united in saying that European support for Ukraine must be continued and even strengthened and that we must not relax our efforts,&#8221; said a senior diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity. That unity, however, is increasingly strained. Hungary&#8217;s Viktor Orb\u00e1n has been rebuked by Zelenskyy for proposing a so-called &#8221;Christmas ceasefire&#8221; while Slovakia&#8217;s Robert Fico has suggested the EU &#8221;move from being an arms supplier to a peacemaker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/19\/eu-leaders-meet-to-discuss-ukraine-aid-syrias-transition-and-trumps-comeback\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/eu-leaders-meet-to-discuss-ukraine-aid-syrias-transition-and-trumps-comeback\/\">EU leaders meet to discuss Ukraine aid, Syria&#8217;s transition and Trump&#8217;s comeback<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[274,2211,559,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-136145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-eu","tag-syria","tag-ukraine","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}