{"id":2241012,"date":"2026-11-06T07:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2241012"},"modified":"2026-11-06T07:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:33:20","slug":"cracks-emerge-over-europes-fragmented-approach-to-ukraine-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2241012","title":{"rendered":"Cracks emerge over Europe\u2019s fragmented approach to Ukraine peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/98\/20\/67\/1200x675_cmsv2_c7edd78c-9ffa-5221-8be9-b3d72f6ed5c6-9982067.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2939675-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1\" data-nid=\"2939675\" data-cid=\"9981851\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2939675-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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SIERAKOWSKI\/<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-copyright c-article-image-copyright--novideo\">\n      Copyright\u00a0FREDERIC SIERAKOWSKI\/\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__body u-article-content\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__contributors-publication-date\">\n<div class=\"c-article-contributors\">\n  By&amp;nbspMared Gwyn Jones\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-publication-date\" data-timestamp=\"1793950400\">\n         Published on<br \/>\n            <time datetime=\"2026-11-06T08:33:20+01:00\">6 November 2026 &#8211; 8:33 GMT+1<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-share-comment u-align-items-center u-display-flex\"><span class=\"c-article-share-comment__links u-align-items-center u-display-flex u-justify-content-center js-c-article-share-comment-share\"><span class=\"c-article-share-comment__label\">Share<\/span><\/span><span class=\"c-article-share-comment__label\">Comments<\/span><span 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I\u2019m Mared Gwyn, holding the newsletter pen again this Friday. In this edition: Meloni takes Brussels to task over its Ukraine peace strategy, and the European Commission is set to unveil its annual migration check-up.<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content js-article-content\">\n<p><strong>But first, while you were sleeping:<\/strong> US President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> has raised the prospect of a \u201cbig, beautiful\u201d deal to end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, claiming the pact is close to being settled. Trump\u2019s comments came after an unplanned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s special envoy <strong>Kirill Dmitriev<\/strong> in Washington.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be very big. It&#8217;s going to involve more than Ukraine, and I could even say it might involve all of Europe. It&#8217;s going to be a big, beautiful agreement, and everyone&#8217;s going to be thrilled,\u201d Trump later told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The talks came following unusual scenes at the White House, where Ukrainian and Russian officials sat alongside each other at a meeting hosted by US First Lady <strong>Melania Trump<\/strong> following a rare humanitarian ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky, my colleague <strong>Sasha Vakulina<\/strong> writes. <\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s envoy Dmitriev said Putin had personally given instructions for the humanitarian operation and conveyed his thanks to Melania Trump, without mentioning that it was Russian forces that occupied Oleshky in 2022 and left its residents trapped under Moscow&#8217;s control. According to the US-based Institute for the Study of War, nearly five years of occupation have left residents facing severe food and medical shortages, with reports of abuses by Russian troops. Those who remain face continued hardship under Moscow&#8217;s control.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Europe says:<\/strong> But cracks emerged on this side of the Atlantic yesterday over Europe\u2019s representation in the peace talks, with Italian Prime Minister <strong>Giorgia Meloni<\/strong> denouncing what she described as an uncoordinated approach in a critical letter to European Council President <strong>Ant\u00f3nio Costa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meloni\u2019s protest comes just after the EU hosted talks on Ukraine\u2019s future with allies including France, Germany, the UK and the US. Italian representatives had been present at an earlier meeting in Oslo hosted by the Norwegian Prime Minister and Finnish President. The Italian premier says that the multiple negotiating formats are undermining Europe\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n<p>Costa has issued a prompt reply, writing that the EU\u2019s involvement in peace negotiations &#8220;must be organised in a manner that enables it to convey a clear and unified message, to defend its interests and to support Ukraine\u201d. The issue will now be put on the table when the EU\u2019s 27 leaders gather for informal talks in Dublin next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meloni\u2019s backers:<\/strong> Polish Foreign Minister <strong>Rados\u0142aw Sikorski<\/strong> echoed Meloni\u2019s grievances on Thursday and called for \u201clegitimate representation\u201d under the Lisbon Treaty, which leaves the EU foreign policy in the hands of either Costa or the EU\u2019s High Representative, Kaja Kallas, my colleague Jorge Liboreiro reports from Warsaw. The UK and Norway, he noted, should also be added to this single voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing we want is Western Europe dealing with Russia, over the heads of Eastern Europe,\u201d Sikorski said. \u201cYou cannot leave Eastern Europe and Scandinavia out of the conversation. We are about 120 million people. Finland borders Russia, Norway borders Russia, the Baltics border Russia, and Poland borders Russia and Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Austria\u2019s Foreign Minister, <strong>Beate Meinl-Reisinger<\/strong>, has also <strong>aligned with<\/strong> Meloni, saying the EU approach lacks \u201cstrategic coordination\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warsaw dispatch:<\/strong> Our ever-curious reporter <strong>Jorge Liboreiro<\/strong> is meanwhile still busy taking the pulse of the Polish government at a frantic time for European affairs. Here\u2019s what else he heard:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Constitutional crisis:<\/strong> Polish Prime Minister <strong>Donald Tusk<\/strong> says he\u2019s willing to sit down with President <strong>Karol Nawrocki<\/strong> to move past \u201cemotions\u201d and resolve the fractious dispute over the Constitutional Court, which exploded over the weekend when Nawrocki barged into the tribunal to denounce the appointment of judges elected by the ruling party. Nawrocki says the judges weren\u2019t sworn in his presence, but the Venice Commission says the president\u2019s presence is ceremonial and shouldn\u2019t be an obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are closer to the end of the very emotional part of this conflict,\u201d Tusk said. \u201cFrom my point of view, the legal problem is solved.\u201d His minister of justice, <strong>Waldemar \u017burek<\/strong>, was more scathing and accused Nawrocki of abusing his veto power and trying to turn Poland into a presidential system by \u201cfait accompli\u201d. \u017burek said he was open to mediation from Brussels, but the request hasn\u2019t been made yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian gas:<\/strong> Meanwhile, it\u2019s fair to say the prospect of resuming Russian gas purchases as part of a peace deal has unnerved Poland. Energy Minister <strong>Mi\u0142osz Motyka<\/strong> said such an \u201cabsurd\u201d idea would leave Europe vulnerable to Putin\u2019s blackmail, damage US economic interests and strain transatlantic relations. \u201cI\u2019ll be brutally frank,\u201d Motyka said. \u201cIf someone is deluding themselves by thinking they can buy time by buying Russian gas, it\u2019s a very short-sighted and a very expensive game to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Budget drama: Ignacy Niemczycki,<\/strong> deputy minister in charge of European affairs, issued a pointed warning against linking the next EU budget and new financing for Ukraine, as the frugal camp wants to do. Niemczycki argued the two issues are fundamentally separate and binding them together could \u201cbackfire\u201d and make a final deal \u201ceven more difficult\u201d than it is now. A diplomat from the frugals shot back: \u201cThere is no money tree in Brussels, so we need to make political choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Migration check-up:<\/strong> Today, the European Commission is due to present its Asylum and Migration Report, its annual assessment of the migratory pressure facing the EU, which sorts member states by their migratory situation. The law says the report must land by 15 October each year. It is running a few weeks late for the second year in a row, because it touches several raw nerves, my colleague <strong>Luca Bertuzzi<\/strong> writes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First<\/strong>, it judges not only which countries are in crisis, but also how well they apply the rules. Italy is a sore point: Rome has clashed with several capitals, Berlin above all, by refusing to accept returns under the Dublin rules.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second<\/strong>, it is the first report since the Ceuta crisis, so the EU executive must walk a tightrope in assessing how Spain handled it. Madrid came under heavy fire from other EU countries over so-called \u201cpull factors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third,<\/strong> the Commission must propose the Solidarity Pool, a system to share the burden of migration between member states through relocations, financial contributions or alternatives such as operational assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Each country\u2019s share is based on GDP and population, which makes France and Germany the biggest contributors. But a feeling is growing that the system is not working as it should, especially as countries are asked to show solidarity with others that they consider have not put their house in order.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the Commission can defuse these tensions remains to be seen. One option is so-called \u201cresponsibility offsets\u201d, which would let a country take over asylum applications from another member state.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Finland urges US to show &#8216;political will&#8217; to deliver Patriot missiles to Ukraine<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p> Finnish Defence Minister <strong>Antti H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen<\/strong> has corroborated claims by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the US is withholding crucial Patriots defence missiles for political purposes.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with my colleague <strong>Shona Murray<\/strong> from Helsinki, H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen called on the US to find the \u201cpolitical will\u201d to transfer PAC-3 Patriot interceptors to Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President <strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong> recently accused US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth of delaying a tranche of the missiles already paid for by Europe. The PAC-3 Patriot interceptors are the systems most capable of successfully intercepting Russian ballistic missiles which are frequently launched by Russia into Kyiv and surrounding areas. <\/p>\n<p>H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen confirmed that European countries have already paid for the systems, and called on the US to fulfil its part of the contract. \u201cWinter is coming and Russia is preparing huge attacks on Ukraine&#8217;s civil infrastructure, energy infrastructure,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now is the most critical time to have all the air defence capabilities for Ukraine. But we need the political willingness also from the US side to start the deliveries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview on <strong>today\u2019s episode<\/strong> of Europe Today. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>More from our newsrooms<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>EU Commission holds first talks with Serbia\u2019s Student List EU Enlargement.<\/strong> Commissioner Marta Kos met four Student List representatives in Brussels on Monday, the party\u2019s first high-level EU contact since its landslide win. Talks centred on democracy and domestic affairs, as polling irregularities delay the new government. <strong>Luca Bertuzzi<\/strong> has <strong>the report<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Protesters across Europe to call for freeze on energy-hungry data centres.<\/strong> Over 100 rights groups across 15 European countries will protest the rapid development of energy-hungry data centres, calling for an immediate moratorium on new large-scale projects until clearer rules governing them are put in place. <strong>Jonathan Benton<\/strong><strong>has more<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zelenskyy urges Latin American leaders to help repair Ukraine&#8217;s power grid.<\/strong> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday urged Latin American leaders to send help &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221; to save his country&#8217;s power grid from relentless Russian attacks, saying every power plant in Ukraine has been damaged &#8220;in one way or another by attacks&#8221;. <strong>Escarlata S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> and <strong>Evelyn Ann-Marie Dom<\/strong> have <strong>the details<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>We\u2019re also keeping an eye on<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>European Parliament President <strong>Roberta Metsola<\/strong> addresses the Polish Sejm as part of her official visit to Warsaw<\/li>\n<li>The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief <strong>Kaja Kallas<\/strong> is also in Warsaw for the E5 Foreign Affairs Ministerial meeting<\/li>\n<li>European Commissioner for Migration <strong>Magnus Brunner<\/strong> delivers a press conference on the annual Migration Management Cycle report<\/li>\n<li>The EU and Montenegro hold a migration conference, where the Western Balkan country is expected to close Chapter 1 of accession negotiations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>That\u2019s it for today. 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Trump\u2019s comments came after an unplanned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev in Washington.&#8221;It&#8217;s going to be very big. It&#8217;s going to involve more than Ukraine, and I could even say it might involve all of Europe. It&#8217;s going to be a big, beautiful agreement, and everyone&#8217;s going to be thrilled,\u201d Trump later told reporters.The talks came following unusual scenes at the White House, where Ukrainian and Russian officials sat alongside each other at a meeting hosted by US First Lady Melania Trump following a rare humanitarian ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky, my colleague Sasha Vakulina writes.\u00a0Russia\u2019s envoy Dmitriev said Putin had personally given instructions for the humanitarian operation and conveyed his thanks to Melania Trump, without mentioning that it was Russian forces that occupied Oleshky in 2022 and left its residents trapped under Moscow&#8217;s control. According to the US-based Institute for the Study of War, nearly five years of occupation have left residents facing severe food and medical shortages, with reports of abuses by Russian troops. Those who remain face continued hardship under Moscow&#8217;s control.What Europe says: But cracks emerged on this side of the Atlantic yesterday over Europe\u2019s representation in the peace talks, with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni denouncing what she described as an uncoordinated approach in a critical letter to European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa.Meloni\u2019s protest comes just after the EU hosted talks on Ukraine\u2019s future with allies including France, Germany, the UK and the US. Italian representatives had been present at an earlier meeting in Oslo hosted by the Norwegian Prime Minister and Finnish President. The Italian premier says that the multiple negotiating formats are undermining Europe\u2019s credibility.Costa has issued a prompt reply, writing that the EU\u2019s involvement in peace negotiations &#8220;must be organised in a manner that enables it to convey a clear and unified message, to defend its interests and to support Ukraine\u201d. The issue will now be put on the table when the EU\u2019s 27 leaders gather for informal talks in Dublin next week.Meloni\u2019s backers: Polish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski echoed Meloni\u2019s grievances on Thursday and called for \u201clegitimate representation\u201d under the Lisbon Treaty, which leaves the EU foreign policy in the hands of either Costa or the EU\u2019s High Representative, Kaja Kallas, my colleague Jorge Liboreiro reports from Warsaw. The UK and Norway, he noted, should also be added to this single voice.\u201cThe last thing we want is Western Europe dealing with Russia, over the heads of Eastern Europe,\u201d Sikorski said. \u201cYou cannot leave Eastern Europe and Scandinavia out of the conversation. We are about 120 million people. Finland borders Russia, Norway borders Russia, the Baltics border Russia, and Poland borders Russia and Ukraine.\u201dAustria\u2019s Foreign Minister, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, has also aligned with Meloni, saying the EU approach lacks \u201cstrategic coordination\u201d.Warsaw dispatch: Our ever-curious reporter Jorge Liboreiro is meanwhile still busy taking the pulse of the Polish government at a frantic time for European affairs. Here\u2019s what else he heard:Constitutional crisis: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says he\u2019s willing to sit down with President Karol Nawrocki to move past \u201cemotions\u201d and resolve the fractious dispute over the Constitutional Court, which exploded over the weekend when Nawrocki barged into the tribunal to denounce the appointment of judges elected by the ruling party. Nawrocki says the judges weren\u2019t sworn in his presence, but the Venice Commission says the president\u2019s presence is ceremonial and shouldn\u2019t be an obstacle.\u201cI think we are closer to the end of the very emotional part of this conflict,\u201d Tusk said. \u201cFrom my point of view, the legal problem is solved.\u201d His minister of justice, Waldemar \u017burek, was more scathing and accused Nawrocki of abusing his veto power and trying to turn Poland into a presidential system by \u201cfait accompli\u201d. \u017burek said he was open to mediation from Brussels, but the request hasn\u2019t been made yet.Russian gas: Meanwhile, it\u2019s fair to say the prospect of resuming Russian gas purchases as part of a peace deal has unnerved Poland. Energy Minister Mi\u0142osz Motyka said such an \u201cabsurd\u201d idea would leave Europe vulnerable to Putin\u2019s blackmail, damage US economic interests and strain transatlantic relations. \u201cI\u2019ll be brutally frank,\u201d Motyka said. \u201cIf someone is deluding themselves by thinking they can buy time by buying Russian gas, it\u2019s a very short-sighted and a very expensive game to play.\u201dBudget drama: Ignacy Niemczycki, deputy minister in charge of European affairs, issued a pointed warning against linking the next EU budget and new financing for Ukraine, as the frugal camp wants to do. Niemczycki argued the two issues are fundamentally separate and binding them together could \u201cbackfire\u201d and make a final deal \u201ceven more difficult\u201d than it is now. A diplomat from the frugals shot back: \u201cThere is no money tree in Brussels, so we need to make political choices.\u201dMigration check-up: Today, the European Commission is due to present its Asylum and Migration Report, its annual assessment of the migratory pressure facing the EU, which sorts member states by their migratory situation. The law says the report must land by 15 October each year. It is running a few weeks late for the second year in a row, because it touches several raw nerves, my colleague Luca Bertuzzi writes.First, it judges not only which countries are in crisis, but also how well they apply the rules. Italy is a sore point: Rome has clashed with several capitals, Berlin above all, by refusing to accept returns under the Dublin rules.Second, it is the first report since the Ceuta crisis, so the EU executive must walk a tightrope in assessing how Spain handled it. Madrid came under heavy fire from other EU countries over so-called \u201cpull factors\u201d.Third, the Commission must propose the Solidarity Pool, a system to share the burden of migration between member states through relocations, financial contributions or alternatives such as operational assistance.Each country\u2019s share is based on GDP and population, which makes France and Germany the biggest contributors. But a feeling is growing that the system is not working as it should, especially as countries are asked to show solidarity with others that they consider have not put their house in order.Whether the Commission can defuse these tensions remains to be seen. One option is so-called \u201cresponsibility offsets\u201d, which would let a country take over asylum applications from another member state.Finland urges US to show &#8216;political will&#8217; to deliver Patriot missiles to Ukraine\u00a0\u00a0Finnish Defence Minister Antti H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen has corroborated claims by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the US is withholding crucial Patriots defence missiles for political purposes.In an exclusive interview with my colleague Shona Murray from Helsinki, H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen called on the US to find the \u201cpolitical will\u201d to transfer PAC-3 Patriot interceptors to Ukraine.\u00a0Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently accused US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth of delaying a tranche of the missiles already paid for by Europe. The PAC-3 Patriot interceptors are the systems most capable of successfully intercepting Russian ballistic missiles which are frequently launched by Russia into Kyiv and surrounding areas.\u00a0H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen confirmed that European countries have already paid for the systems, and called on the US to fulfil its part of the contract. \u201cWinter is coming and Russia is preparing huge attacks on Ukraine&#8217;s civil infrastructure, energy infrastructure,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now is the most critical time to have all the air defence capabilities for Ukraine. But we need the political willingness also from the US side to start the deliveries.\u201dWatch the interview on today\u2019s episode of Europe Today.\u00a0More from our newsroomsEU Commission holds first talks with Serbia\u2019s Student List EU Enlargement. Commissioner Marta Kos met four Student List representatives in Brussels on Monday, the party\u2019s first high-level EU contact since its landslide win. Talks centred on democracy and domestic affairs, as polling irregularities delay the new government. Luca Bertuzzi has the report.Protesters across Europe to call for freeze on energy-hungry data centres. Over 100 rights groups across 15 European countries will protest the rapid development of energy-hungry data centres, calling for an immediate moratorium on new large-scale projects until clearer rules governing them are put in place. Jonathan Benton has more.Zelenskyy urges Latin American leaders to help repair Ukraine&#8217;s power grid. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday urged Latin American leaders to send help &#8220;as soon as possible&#8221; to save his country&#8217;s power grid from relentless Russian attacks, saying every power plant in Ukraine has been damaged &#8220;in one way or another by attacks&#8221;. Escarlata S\u00e1nchez and Evelyn Ann-Marie Dom have the details.We\u2019re also keeping an eye onEuropean Parliament President Roberta Metsola addresses the Polish Sejm as part of her official visit to WarsawThe EU\u2019s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas is also in Warsaw for the E5 Foreign Affairs Ministerial meetingEuropean Commissioner for Migration Magnus Brunner delivers a press conference on the annual Migration Management Cycle reportThe EU and Montenegro hold a migration conference, where the Western Balkan country is expected to close Chapter 1 of accession negotiationsThat\u2019s it for today. 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