Approach of new Trump administration a necessary ‘cold shower’ for EU, says Czech president
US vice-president JD Vance and US secretary of state Marco Rubio during a meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday. Photograph: Matthias Schrader/APMunich rule number one, posted on the walls of the Bayerischer Hof hotel: “Engage and interact with each other, don’t lecture or ignore one another”.
Throughout the Munich conference panels, the message from European participants was the same: no ceasefire deal could be done overPolish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorksi dialled down the indignation in Munich, but pointed out to remaining US attendees the cost of Trump’s “unorthodox” direct approach to Russia on Ukraine.
Czech president Petr Pavel suggested the new US administration’s approach was a necessary “cold shower”. But it was contradictory, he argued, for the US to demand Europe do more on security and defence while excluding it – and Ukraine – from talks. “Otherwise we would somehow echo the Munich spirit that the Czechs know about very well,” he said, “and agreement about a country without a country.”
With an air of frustration after inconclusive talks with the Vance delegation, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy challenged European leaders with his prediction that Russia was coming for them next.
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