{"id":422246,"date":"2025-03-24T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/03\/24\/ucraina-macron-coalizione-volenterosi\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:42:46","slug":"macron-speeds-up-coalition-of-the-willing-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/24\/macron-speeds-up-coalition-of-the-willing-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron speeds up ‘coalition of the willing’ talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels –\u00a0The coalition of the willing<\/strong> seems to be moving ahead expeditiously, although, for now, these are only commitments on paper. Emmanuel Macron<\/strong> has convened a leaders’\u00a0meeting<\/strong> in Paris for Thursday after military chiefs<\/strong> met in London last week to lay out operational plans on how to monitor a potential ceasefire<\/strong> in Ukraine in more detail.<\/p>\n

“The whole process will be finalized in the coming days.”<\/strong>\u00a0These words, spoken by the French president on the sidelines of the EU summit on Thursday (March 20), convey the urgency that\u00a0Old Continent’s chancelleries feel. “We will conclude our work on short-term support for the Ukrainian army<\/strong>, on defending a sustainable and durable Ukrainian army model to prevent Russian invasions<\/strong>, and then on the security guarantees<\/strong> that European armies can provide,” Macron added, announcing a meeting in Paris\u00a0<\/strong>next Thursday (March 27), which\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky<\/strong>, among others, will attend.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the European Council in Brussels, December 19, 2024 (photo: European Union)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is yet another meeting between the leaders of the participants in the so-called coalition of the willing<\/strong> — some 30 countries following the French-British initiative<\/strong> to send peacekeepers<\/i> to Ukraine to monitor compliance with a possible ceasefire<\/strong>\u00a0— and will take place exactly one week after the last meeting held in London by the\u00a0Chiefs of Staff<\/strong>, in parallel with the ongoing EU summit in Brussels where member states (except\u00a0Hungary) renewed<\/a> their support for Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Several operational ideas<\/strong> for translating the commitment to “protect the peace” into practice emerged from the London session, including the formula of a military force on four “levels.”<\/strong> The first, along the ceasefire line (which should be demilitarized), would consist of United Nations White Helmets<\/strong> from non-European countries. The next tier would be the Ukrainian army<\/strong>, the third that of the “willing.”<\/strong> At the same time, the final guarantee would be provided by US aviation<\/strong> (although, so far, Washington has never agreed to participate)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

While His Majesty’s Air Force (RAF<\/strong>) is reportedly considering<\/a> sending some fighter aircraft<\/strong> to the aggrieved country, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/strong> also opened the door to contributions of a non-military nature<\/strong>, such as through logistical support. It is a way to get in the way of leaders who, while professing their closeness to the former Soviet republic, are unwilling to send contingents of soldiers to the former Soviet republic, like Giorgia Meloni<\/strong>, whose government categorically refused<\/a>\u00a0to send\u00a0troops, except in the context of an\u00a0operation under a UN flag<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Italian premier Giorgia Meloni (photo: Nicolas Tuscat\/Afp)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Incidentally, Russia also prefers<\/strong> a\u00a0multinational force and\u00a0strongly opposes the presence of NATO troops<\/strong> in Ukraine. As a “fundamental” condition for accepting a ceasefire, the Kremlin even demanded<\/a>\u00a0that the Western allies of Kyiv immediately halt providing military aid<\/strong> (including intelligence sharing), as well as a stop to mobilization in the attacked country.<\/p>\n

Negotiations\u00a0between the United States and Russia<\/strong>\u00a0are underway<\/a>\u00a0in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,\u00a0<\/strong>after the US<\/strong>\u00a0delegation met yesterday with the Ukrainian one<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leaders of Kyiv-supporting countries are expected in the French capital on Thursday to “fine-tune” the plan to protect peace in Ukraine should it be stipulated with the Russian aggressor. Italy confirms it will not send soldiers to the former Soviet republic, except under UN auspices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":384933,"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":[25707],"tags":[25802,27755,30795,26260,26064],"class_list":["post-422246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-coalition-of-the-willing-en","tag-emmanuel-macron-en","tag-giorgia-meloni-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422246","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\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422276,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422246\/revisions\/422276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}