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(LR) British Foreign Secretary David Lamie, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Baro, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorski and German Foreign Minister Analen Baerbok sit on the panel during the 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, Southern Germany on February 15, 2025.
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Europe is facing an “existential” moment in its history and must take a bold and united position when it comes to guaranteeing Ukraine’s future security, regional foreign ministers told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
“This is an existential moment and this is a time when Europe has to stand up,” German Foreign Minister Analen Baerbok told the audience on Saturday while she was involved in a panel entitled “Europole?” The new geopolitical role on the old continent, “moderated by Sylvia Aaro by CNBC.
“Our response to others” (politics) “My Nation First” is “Europe United” and this is what we show here on the panel, this is what we have shown in the last few days – that we have clarified there will not be peace in Europe, If this is not a European peace, “she said.
The United Kingdom Foreign Minister David Lamie described the war in Ukraine as the front line not only for the country but also for Europe and agreed that the continent must answer an “existential question” about Ukraine’s future security.
“We know that even when we reach a contractual peace, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin will not disappear, so this is an existential question for Europe, we must (look at) this issue with the US and at the right time we will go into debate about guarantees on guarantees There will be an agreement for security, “he said.
European foreign ministers agreed on Saturday that allowing Ukraine to join the Military Union in the future may be the easiest and most profitable way to deter Russia from future aggression towards its neighbor.
“We say that there is an irreversible road to Ukraine to NATO,” Lami told MSC, adding that it is “the cheapest and is the best mechanism for securing peace not only in Europe but also in the Euro-Atlantic.”
His German counterpart, Baerbok, agreed, saying that “the Road to Ukraine is hiding in NATO (entry) of NATO” and that this will be the “cheapest” way to guarantee Ukraine’s security in the long run.
European officials were left to try when President Donald Trump announced last week that he had talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodimir Zelenski and that both leaders agreed to peace talks, seemingly without consulting European allies before The calls.
Trump and his Minister of Defense Pete Heget have caused more terrified in Europe, saying that they believe that Ukrainian membership in military alliance NATO is an “unrealistic” goal.
European employees have replied that it is a mistake for US employees to take on Ukrainian NATO membership, Russia’s key concern, and a potentially key moment of leverage for allies outside the negotiating table.
Trump’s reaction
This year, the Munich Security Conference has gathered defense and security officers around the world to discuss the future of Ukraine, peace talks with Russia and Europe, defense architecture.
The meeting comes at a time when the expectations are high that the war between Russia and Ukraine may be over, but also increased uncertainty about what a peace deal with mediation in the US may look like and what role allies in negotiations may have. S
There are also fears that Russia may be tempted to regroup and attack Ukraine again in the future if Kiev is not provided with sufficient security guarantees.
European officials have warned that if they do not participate in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, The deal will not work But NATO chief Mark Rute also told MSC that NATO members should “stop complaining” about being away and Instead, he has to come up with “specific ideas” in order to end the war under only the conditions for Kiev.
Radoslav Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland – who said the current situation was both a “crisis and result” of Europe, which consumed a “peace dividend” too long on Trump’s phone conversation with Putin last week.
Still, he believed that “the call is a mistake as he denies President Putin and lowers morality in Ukraine,” but claims that sooner or later Europe will have to be negotiated on Ukraine’s future security.
“But when President Trump says that as part of a deal he will have to have European troops (protecting a transaction), then it will depend on us to deliver them, so sooner or later we will have to be involved,” he said.
Jean-Noel Baro, Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs in France, said the continent could offer a lot about leadership.
“Let me first try to fight for some form of Euro-repression or European Sympic. We hear on stage and many of us are proud to say that we believe Europe is a super power. Europe is the continent who pushed back against A full-scale invasion of Russia, which was supposed to be the largest military power in the world and which failed to achieve its goals, “he told the group.
“Considering that there are big challenges for Europe and one of them is to increase defense costs,” he said.
Failure to comply with “fair and lasting peace” for Ukraine would intensify not only Europe but also the USEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told MSC Friday.
US special presidential envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kelloge said on Saturday that A peaceful plan for the two warring nations may come within days or weeks.
“I am at times of Trump,” Kelloge told the delegates of the fringe event at the Munich Security Conference, citing a famous fast -paced decision by US President Donald Trump.
