Published on January 16, 2025 at 06:57.
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Faced with Ukraine, the question is no longer whether Europeans are divided but rather to judge to what extent existing divisions are likely to have damaging consequences for kyiv. Hostile to any support for Ukraine, Victor Orban, the Hungarian sovereignist leader, is the itchy hair of Europe and swims with undisguised pleasure against the tide, eager to shape alliances between hard rights and by taking for Donald Trump’s messenger and his “peace plan”. He particularly irritated – or worried – European leaders last summer by going to meet, in turn, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and the Chinese president. For his part, the head of the Slovak government, Robert Fico, has been railing against Volodymyr Zelensky since Ukraine closed the tap to Russian gas deliveries on January 1, and is seeking to negotiate with Vladimir Putin.
The Franco-German couple is increasingly struggling, the two countries being entangled in endless political crises. And the Europeans who agree to loosen the purse strings are increasingly procrastinating about the intensity of the aid to be given to Ukraine. Should we go so far as to send troops and, if so, at what time and in what precise context? The question, long taboo, is no longer so.
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