{"id":420726,"date":"2025-03-07T17:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/03\/07\/regno-unito-turchia-extra-ue-ucraina\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T17:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:20:49","slug":"uk-turkey-canada-norway-and-iceland-ready-to-contribute-to-eu-efforts-on-defence-and-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/07\/uk-turkey-canada-norway-and-iceland-ready-to-contribute-to-eu-efforts-on-defence-and-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"UK, Turkey, Canada, Norway and Iceland ready to contribute to EU efforts on defence and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Close coordination between the European Union and some key non-EU partners continues, now that confidence in the historic U.S. ally and its umbrella protecting the West is waning. In the aftermath of the extraordinary European Council on Ukraine and defense, the leaders of the European institutions, Antonio Costa, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong> and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas<\/strong>, met with the leaders of the United Kingdom, Turkey, Canada, Norway and Iceland<\/strong> to take stock of the situation. And the five non-EU countries supported\u00a0the results<\/a> of the summit.<\/p>\n

“Von der Leyen and I briefed” the British prime ministers, Keir Starmer, Norwegian, Jonas Gahr Store, Icelandic, Kristr\u00fan Frostad\u00f3ttir, Canadian, Justin Trudeau, and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “on the important decisions taken by the European Council last night and on our meeting with Zelensky,” European Council President Costa explained. He added, “Together with our partners in Europe, across the Atlantic and beyond, we must work to support Ukraine<\/strong> and ensure a just and lasting peace.”<\/p>\n

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Keir Starmer and other non-EU leaders in video conference<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n

During the meeting, the three EU representatives “stressed the importance of cooperation with like-minded NATO partners to support Ukraine and ensure a just and lasting peace, and for European security and defense,” European sources explain. Costa reportedly outlined the European Council’s conclusions on Ukraine, while von der Leyen\u2014godmother of the Rearm Europe plan\u2014focused more on defence. Starmer, Erdogan, Trudeau, and others reportedly “welcomed this initiative<\/strong>, stressing the importance of close coordination among partners,” congratulating the EU “on the key decisions taken.”<\/p>\n

In addition, they “expressed their determination to contribute to joint efforts<\/strong> to support Ukraine and to intensify defence cooperation” and “stressed the importance of NATO and the need for close complementarity of all work.”<\/p>\n

Von der Leyen also separately updated the secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte<\/strong>.\u00a0In\u00a0a post<\/a>\u00a0on X, the leader reiterated that “the Rearm Europe plan will enhance key capability areas, from air and missile defense to cyber warfare, in line with NATO priorities.<\/span>\u00a0This will strengthen both Europe’s defence and the transatlantic partnership.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the aftermath of the extraordinary European Council meeting on defense and Ukraine, EU leaders took stock of the situation with the leaders of the five allied countries. Von der Leyen also updated the NATO secretary, Mark Rutte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":420720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30809,25707],"tags":[27175,26327,25747,25927,26654,26657,30676,27931,26746,30548,27637],"class_list":["post-420726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-security","category-world-politics","tag-canada-en","tag-european-straordiancouncil-en","tag-council-extraordinaire-en","tag-isila","tag-norway-en","tag-turkey-en-2","tag-ukraine-in-2","tag-kingdom-united-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420732,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420726\/revisions\/420732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}