Willing to pay: how much? Ukraine allies in Paris without the United States
Willing to pay: how much? Ukraine allies in Paris without the United States
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Forget last week’s NATO summit where Donald Trump put the alliance through an emotional rollercoaster. It’s Bastille Day in Paris, with the so-called coalition of the willing – aka Nato minus the United States – serving up some more serene summitry on the eve of the traditional military parade down the Champs-Elysées where Germany, Ukraine, the UK, Sweden and Greece will have aircraft participating in the flyover. Beyond the pageantry and the photo ops, there’s the cold, hard reality of doing more without Washington’s military and financial power.
For Keir Starmer’s last summit as British prime minister, the UK signing up to a €60bn EU defence loan scheme, Germany pledging 90 million to build Ukranian long-range drones and then there’s Kyiv’s itself, with the wind in its sails as its long-range strikes force a fuel shortage in Russia, and yet it’s still unable to stop ballistic missiles from killing civilians, nor stop the Russians from inching forward in the Donbas industrial heartland. As Moscow continues to feed the meat grinder of a brutal frontline, how do Europeans prepare for what comes next?
Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Piera Rocco, Andrew Hilliar.
