Article originally appeared on www.zerohedge.com.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s informal emergency meeting Monday in Paris with the leaders of Germany, Britain, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, and NATO’s secretary general and EU figures – is a scramble prompted by Europe and Ukraine being cut out of Saudi-hosted negotiations between the US and Russia to end the three-year long Ukraine war.
President Zelensky in desperation is meanwhile urging for Europe to swiftly nominate a representative for the negotiations, one of his top advisers was cite in a fresh Bloomberg report as saying.
“It should be a quickly made decision,” Ihor Zhovkva, the deputy head of Zelenskiy’s office, said. “I hope right after the Paris meeting. We should act, not reflect.”
The US-Russia talks are expected to begin Tuesday, likely making any effort to insert a top European official into the mix to represent Kiev’s perspective too-little, too late.
Hungary has of course been a rare European voice …
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