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.
this is what we call cauterization (where europe abandons ukraine to defend their own borders)