Spiegel reported that French and Italian officials had expressed scepticism about providing significant funding to support Kyiv, citing Paris and Rome’s large public debts as a key concern.

The newspaper also reports that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and French President Emmanuel Macron aim to take a leading role in EU negotiations with the United States. However, the proposal for a new support package, put forward by the EU’s diplomacy chief, Kaja Kallas, appears to contradict this ambition.

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      you know when you’ll know any european country is “taking it seriously”, it’s when they march troops into ukraine to create a human bullwark, before the americans land, and failing to do that, it’s lost

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        Nahh mate EU needs US to lead the way to defend EU interest against Russia 🤡

        US said get fucked and fuck Ukraine, we going with russia

        EU can’t get the hint still 🤡