European Leaders to Meet in Paris for Talks on Ukraine Security Guarantees
European leaders are set to convene in Paris on September 4 to advance high-level discussions on potential security guarantees for Ukraine.
The Gaze reports this, referring to The Financial Times, citing three diplomats familiar with the plans.
The meeting, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, will bring together German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
According to the report, the talks will build on agreements reached last month in Washington between U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and European leaders.
That meeting laid the groundwork for a framework under which tens of thousands of European troops could be deployed to Ukraine as part of a multinational security contingent, supported by U.S. command-and-control systems, intelligence, and surveillance assets.
Speaking to the Financial Times, von der Leyen also said the EU had developed “quite concrete” plans for the possible deployment, underscoring that security guarantees are “absolutely essential” for Ukraine’s stability after any peace agreement.
“We have a clear roadmap, and this work is progressing very well,” she said, adding that Trump had given repeated assurances that the U.S. would play a supporting role.
Defense ministers from the “coalition of the willing” have already drawn up detailed blueprints for how such a multinational force could be assembled, though von der Leyen emphasized that the final decision will rest with individual member states. “The sense of urgency is very high… things are moving forward. It is really taking shape,” she noted.
Von der Leyen stressed that Ukraine’s Armed Forces would remain the backbone of deterrence in the post-war period, but argued that sustained European financial and military support would be required.
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