Ukraine war live: Zelenskyy to meet Starmer, Macron and Merz in London over peace push
Ukrainian president’s discussions with leaders of UK, France and Germany come after US-Ukraine talks in Florida failed to achieve breakthrough
The EU has just been asked for its response to Musk’s anti-EU outbursts over the weekend, with suggestions the EU was “the enemy of Europe,” a “bureaucratic monster” and should be abolished.
“Let me say that it’s part of the freedom of speech to put out even completely crazy statements,” the European Commission’s chief spokesperson Paula Pinho said.
“On the crazy statements that you’re referring to, … it takes 1 or 2 sentences to polarise the world, … to create escalations or tensions. It takes hundreds and thousands of sentences – and we’re doing it here, from this podium – to diplomatically appease tensions, because we have many shared challenges with our American friends. You may call this weakness. I call this strength. This is European strength, and this is what we will keep doing also with our US counterparts.”