Rising to a crisis

Europe is developing a security identity

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United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted a large number of European leaders — as well as his Canadian equivalent — at Lancaster House, London, over the weekend to discuss a path forward for Europe on the Ukrainian crisis. This summit increased in importance after the public, televised breakdown of talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and American President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last week. Mr Trump refused to grant Ukraine any security guarantees. The agenda before Europe's leaders was to ensure that this did not represent the end of Western support for Ukraine, and that the United States did not come to a separate agreement with the Russian Federation that did not involve the Ukrainians or their representatives. These aims were only partially met. The European leaders committed themselves to continuing their support to Ukraine in the current war and to ensuring it could rearm itself as and when a ceasefire was declared.