{"id":471228,"date":"2026-11-13T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/11\/13\/e5-e-ue-leuropa-sceglie-il-suo-team-negoziale-per-la-pace-tra-russia-e-ucraina\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T18:36:51","slug":"e5-and-the-eu-europe-selects-its-negotiating-team-for-peace-between-russia-and-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/11\/13\/e5-and-the-eu-europe-selects-its-negotiating-team-for-peace-between-russia-and-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"E5 and the EU: Europe selects its negotiating team for peace between Russia and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Europe at the negotiating table for peace between Russia and Ukraine: a solution is beginning to take shape. Following a day of talks in Dublin, the heads of state and government of the EU member states appear to have reached a tentative agreement on how to fulfil Europe\u2019s role: a negotiating team comprising the group known as the \u2018E5\u2019 (France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom) plus the European Union. This scenario was raised at the closing press conference by the Irish Prime Minister, Michael Martin: \u201cIt is reasonable,<\/strong>\u201d he said, to send the group of five to the negotiating table, joined by the EU. First, however, \u201cRussia must demonstrate a willingness to end this war.\u201d <\/p>\n

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen<\/b>, shares this view, believing that, for the negotiations, \u201ca strong European presence is important to safeguard the interests of Ukraine and the EU\u201d, and in this regard, \u201cI welcome the European E5 team plus the EU institutions<\/b>\u201d. Of course, she warns, \u201cthe path to peace will not be easy, but we will remain united, just as we have been over the last five years in our support for Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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24\/06\/2026. Berlin, Germany. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits Berlin for an E5 meeting with Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany, Emmanuel Macron, President of France, Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy and Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland. Picture by Simon Dawson \/ No 10 Downing Street [Source: Wikimedia Commons]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The die is cast and the course set: Europe will sit at the table as a “team”, emphasises the President of the European Council, Ant\u00f3nio Costa<\/strong>, who also wishes to make it clear who, on behalf of the EU, can represent the Union. He does so on strictly legal grounds, stating that \u201cthe treaties<\/a> are clear: the President of the European Council represents the Member States in matters of foreign policy at the level of Heads of State or Government.<\/strong>\u201d He then adds, \u201cthere is the President of the Commission, who represents the Commission.\u201d These points effectively sideline the EU\u2019s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, who is destined to play the role of a spectator. <\/p>\n

So the EU seems to have found a solution to the problem of “who” should represent Europeans, and now a clear common strategy will have to be established. \u201cThe coming weeks will be a decisive test of Russia\u2019s willingness to end this war,\u201d insists Costa. At the end of the month (26 and 27 November), he reveals, the heads of state and government will discuss \u201cUkraine\u2019s financial needs for 2027\u201d during the EU\u2019s extraordinary summit on the multi-annual budget<\/a> (MFF 2028\u20132034).<\/p>\n

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The heads of state and government appear to have reached an agreement on who will represent Europe at the negotiating table: the group comprising France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom, with Costa and von der Leyen. Kallas has been excluded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":471224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"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":[30714,26027,21066,30463,13114,2496,3926],"class_list":["post-471228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-e5","tag-vertice-dei-leader-en","tag-michael-martin","tag-negotiations-of-peace-en","tag-ue","tag-ukraine","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471228","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=471228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471229,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471228\/revisions\/471229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}