{"id":467628,"date":"2026-10-12T10:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/12\/ucraina-trump-fa-accordi-con-putin-lue-noi-con-kiev-avanti-per-la-nostra-strada\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T09:28:04","slug":"ukraine-trump-makes-deals-with-putin-eu-we-stand-with-kyiv-and-will-continue-on-our-own-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/12\/ukraine-trump-makes-deals-with-putin-eu-we-stand-with-kyiv-and-will-continue-on-our-own-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: Trump makes deals with Putin. EU: \u201cWe stand with Kyiv and will continue on our own path\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Moving forward without paying too much attention to others’ choices. The European Union condemns US President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to strike a deal with Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia, and is responding with greater firmness. The Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg begins with a display of unity of purpose, aimed at undermining the Kremlin\u2019s resistance. \u201cWe are moving forward on our own path,<\/strong>\u201d said the EU\u2019s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas<\/strong>, on her arrival.<\/p>\n

 The EU is working on a new package of sanctions targeting around 1,600 entities and individuals. This is the most extensive package to date, coming on top of the 21 packages of restrictive measures already approved<\/a>. This is a necessary move, given that, as Kallas insists, \u201conly pressure on Russia works and can bring the conflict to an end<\/strong>,\u201d which amounts to a distancing from the US and its president. <\/p>\n

Over the weekend, Trump moved to suspend energy sanctions on Russia, paving the way for the resumption of Russian diesel imports<\/a>. The US President also criticised the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, for failing to call an election. These decisions and statements are driving a wedge through the Euro-Atlantic front on foreign policy, among both allies and non-allies. Even Ireland, a neutral country, is criticising the US. Dublin\u2019s Foreign Minister, Helen McEntee<\/strong>, describes Trump\u2019s decision as \u201cworrying\u201d, in the face of which \u201cwe must redouble our efforts in keeping pressure on Russia<\/strong>, and continue to support Ukraine.\u201d <\/p>\n

 \u201cWe must keep the channels of dialogue with the United States open,<\/strong>\u201d The Irish Foreign Minister also added. This is a phrase often used in diplomacy to indicate that relations with a counterpart are strained and compromised, but that the spirit and hope for d\u00e9tente and constructive engagement have not been abandoned. In essence, relations between the EU and the United States are at a critical juncture, and the EU is trying not to make a big deal of it. <\/p>\n

The foreign ministers of the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) are aligning themselves with their European partners\u2019 position: \u201cSanctions work when they are tightened, not when they are weakened\u201d \u2013 a message that smacks of condemnation of Trump\u2019s United States, expressed by Kestutis Budrys (Lithuania), with his counterparts reiterating that pressure, sanctions, and isolation are the only possible way to bring the conflict to an end. This stance is also shared by Croatia, further evidence of a united European Union against Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

European foreign ministers have condemned the energy deal between the United States and Russia, but are not making a big fuss about it. A package of sanctions targeting 1,600 entities and oligarchs is ready. However, transatlantic relations are in crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":433972,"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","show_comment_section":"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":[33830,25804,26403,30781],"class_list":["post-467628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-sanctionsin","tag-war-russia-in-ukraine-en","tag-ukraine-in-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467628","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467629,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467628\/revisions\/467629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}