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The long history of Russia's broken promises to Ukraine
Barely had we gotten out of the car to take a look when... I want to get out of here. Jesus, we're gone. Everyone scrambles and jumps back in their cars, but our driver seems frozen, and then... A second blast rocks our car. So much for the ceasefire.
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Ukrainians may have slept a little better overnight Monday without the buzzing of Iranian Shahed drones and the explosions of air defenses shooting them down. The attacks, which can also include missiles, are almost a nightly event. Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv say more than 4,000 drones were launched over Ukraine's cities in the month of March alone.
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Ukraine, too, has targeted Russian border region cities like Bolgorod and Bryansk, from which Russian forces launch attacks against Ukraine. Some pundits wondered if the overnight pause was a gesture from the Kremlin, given President Trump's recent criticism that Vladimir Putin may be stalling in ceasefire negotiations. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Kiev.
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France's highest appeals court confirmed a lower court's verdict against former President Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling. He and his lawyer were convicted of forming a corruption pact with a judge... to share confidential information with them regarding another case involving Sarkozy.
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That case was about using false billing to go over the legal spending limits for his 2012 re-election bid. The conviction is a first for a former French president. Sarkozy says he will respect the French court's decision, but plans to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Avignon, France.
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Ukraine says Moscow's airstrikes destroyed residential neighborhoods in Zaporizhia and Odessa provinces Friday, smashing civilian homes and injuring at least six people, including a child. Zaporizhia is one of the four Ukrainian regions partially occupied by Russian forces that President Vladimir Putin annexed in a referendum two years ago.
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He says Russia must have these provinces in any peace deal, even though it doesn't fully control three of them. Ukraine says it will never cede these territories to Russia. Experts say any peace deal would likely mean freezing the front line where it is and creating a Korean peninsula-type situation in Europe. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Kiev. This is NPR News.
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USAID Ruling, Ukraine On Trump Putin Agreement, Gaza Ceasefire Collapse
Well, A, so far nothing has changed because this is what the skies of Kiev sounded like last night. I held my phone out our window. So you can hear the air defense shooting down drones. You know, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he's been seeking a ceasefire to end attacks on people and civilian infrastructure, not just energy infrastructure.
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USAID Ruling, Ukraine On Trump Putin Agreement, Gaza Ceasefire Collapse
And he said on social media that these nighttime attacks by Russia are destroying the normal life of Ukrainians. He said the fact that these attacks continued right after Trump and Putin's call showed that maximum pressure must be put on Russia for the sake of peace.
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USAID Ruling, Ukraine On Trump Putin Agreement, Gaza Ceasefire Collapse
Well, he does not trust Putin. And there seems to be a constant fear in Ukraine now of being thrown under the bus by the Trump administration, you know, being forced to make concessions to capitulate. Zelensky had a long online press conference with journalists last night, and clearly the length of the two-and-a-half-hour call between Presidents Trump and Putin was unnerving for him.
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And he was underwhelmed by the very limited agreement that came out of it, but he tried to show optimism because he has no choice, really. Let's listen. You know, he's saying, if this is the first step and there are no other steps so far, then let's hear the details of how to proceed, and we will.
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And he just said he really hopes that President Trump will be able to put as much pressure on Putin as possible.
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Well, very far apart, actually. Analysts say there will have to be major concessions on both sides. And so far, the Russian demands are maximalist. For example, Putin wants land that his army doesn't even fully control in provinces that he's already annexed and is calling Russian. That's a red line for Ukraine.
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And Putin has said he will only accept a deal if Ukraine stops getting military assistance from his allies. Ukraine and the EU have rejected that.
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Well, yesterday, French President Emmanuel Macron met with the chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, and they said they will absolutely keep the military aid flowing to Ukraine. And Macron said any ceasefire must be verifiable and Ukrainians must be at the table. You know, Macron has said many times that Europe cannot let Russia win this war. Here he is speaking yesterday.
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He said, we will continue supporting Ukraine in this war of aggression because we know from our experience what it means to be occupied. And of course, he's talking about the Nazi occupation of France in World War II.
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Well, this is deeply shaking the continent. There's a view that Putin is stalling so he can continue the war and that he's playing with Trump, who Europeans believe is naive, has no experience with Putin and wants a peace deal so badly he'll do anything. The former French ambassador to the U.S. won on French TV last night, Gérard Arrault, and he sort of summed up the sentiment.
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He said Putin is just signing on to the peace deal not to annoy Trump, but he's testing the waters to see how far he can go. He says it's Putin's dream for Russia to be treated as a superpower, dealing one-on-one with the American president over the heads of the Europeans.
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Thank you, A.
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Ukraine Ceasefire Talks, Education Department Layoffs, Spending Bill
Well, A, that buys them peace, space, and calm to begin real talks about a long-term peace. It would include the cessation of all shooting, bombs, missiles, drones on the Black Sea, the front line, and in Ukraine's cities, of course. And the Trump administration announced it is resuming the sharing of intelligence and delivery of military supplies, which it had temporarily paused. U.S.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the ball is now in Russia's court.
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So that's an incredible statement, less than two weeks after the Trump administration seemed to blame Ukraine for not wanting peace.
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Well, President Volodymyr Zelensky took to social media immediately to herald the agreement. Here he is speaking.
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He said, the American side understands our arguments, accepts our proposals, and I want to thank President Trump for the constructive conversation between our teams. So, again, a complete turnaround for Zelensky from that disastrous Oval Office meeting. And as for resuming the intelligence, you know, cutting that off was seen as a real low blow to Ukrainians.
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I arrived in Kiev last night just as the news of the deal and the renewed intel sharing was breaking, and I spoke to 35-year-old Dima Suhok. Here he is.
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And how did you feel when it was stopped?
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I don't know if you heard his friend, but she said they felt less safe because satellite intelligence not only helped on the battlefield, but it helped Ukraine defend its cities by giving advance warning of high-speed Russian missiles.
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And having lay in bed last night on my first night in Kiev to air raid sirens and then the explosions of drones being shot down over the city, I can tell you it's nerve-wracking.
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Now the U.S. delegation is set to meet with the Russians. There's been no official reaction from Moscow yet. I spoke with Samuel Sharap, who is a Russia specialist at the think tank the RAND Corporation, and he says the onus is now on the Russians to accept something or perhaps face Trump's ire. But Sharap says, surprisingly, there is common ground between the Russians and Ukrainians.
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So he says this means both sides will be ready to prioritize the broader issues to lead to a longer peace. He says no one has won this war and both sides will have to compromise.
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You're welcome, A.
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Federal Worker Email Confusion, UN On Ukraine, Colorado River, France Surgeon Trial
Okay, his name is Joël Le Squarnac. He's 74 years old now, and he was a prominent surgeon in Western France specializing in appendectomies, abdominal, and gynecological surgery. He's accused of abusing 299 of his patients over three decades, both girls and boys, and the average age was 11.
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He carried out the abuse mostly when they were anesthetized, when he was alone with them in the operating theater or recovery room. And damningly, he was flagged for possessing child pornography in 2004. The FBI actually alerted French authorities after his credit card was linked to a pornography site.
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But the French judge imposed a four-month suspended sentence with no restrictions on his practice or mandated therapy. He went on to serve in many hospitals and continued his abuse until 2017 when
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When he coaxed his six-year-old neighbor into his backyard and abused her, he's now serving 15 years for that and facing another 20 for the new abuse cases that have come out since because he kept meticulous diaries of his abuse and named his patients. I spoke with Francesca Sata, a lawyer representing 10 victims and families. Here she is.
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He benefited from an Omerta, which is both a personal Omerta She says he benefited from an omerta, a silence, both personal and professional. He abused his own nieces, and Sata, like many believe his then-wife, among others, must have suspected something.
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Yeah, well, that's the question. You know, I spoke with freelance journalist Hugo Lemonnier, who just wrote a book about it. He says this trial, if it's only about this one man, will be a failure because the point, he says, is we continue to allow Lesquarnak to be alone with children. No one asked questions, likely because of his high position in society as a surgeon. Here's Lemonnier.
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And even though he's admitted his guilt, Leila, in France, the trial proceeds despite a confession unlike in the U.S.
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That's right. Last year, the world watched the trial of a French man and many other men who drugged his wife and brought these men into their home to rape her over a 10-year period and filmed it all. And just like in that case with the husband, this surgeon has admitted guilt.
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Yesterday, as the trial opened, Lesquarnik told the court, if I'm appearing before you, it's because one day when most of these people were just children, I committed hideous acts. But this trial is missing what the other one had, which made it possible really to get through it for everyone watching.
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A hero, the wife Giselle Pellico, who bravely demanded that it be public so that society could progress. And that has led to a shift in mentalities and actually concrete changes in rape laws. People are hoping that this trial will have a similar effect. On PR's Eleanor Beardsley in Paris, thank you for your reporting.
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Yeah, well, these are sort of the working class everyman in France, a baker, a firefighter. of all ages and races. And Giselle Pellico, she's a victim. Her husband was accused. He drugged her and recruited all of these men on an Internet site over a period of 10 years and filmed everything they did.
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He got the maximum sentence, 20 years, and all of the other 50 men were found guilty of raping Giselle Pellico. Even though many of these men claim they did not rape her because her husband, you know, said they had permission, that she was in agreement. But there are aggravating circumstances to these rapes, and the sentences are all different.
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So they seem to be tailored to each defendant, and it's still being read out. It's very technical. So some of the other men are getting lesser sentences than what the prosecution asked for. I'm hearing eight and ten years. And a couple people have just come out of the courtroom shouting and angry, and I'm not sure who that is and what that means, but this could be very conflictual today.
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Well, first of all, huge security. There's never been a trial like this in France before. I was out since 7 in the morning in front of the courthouse, and there was just hundreds of people from the media all over the world. And also, you know, supporters of Giselle Pellico, who was the victim, who had banners and placards saying, We watched her family come in.
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She has three grown children, and they've all testified that this has destroyed their lives. They've all disowned their father. And also the men who, you know, who have now been convicted because nobody was acquitted. They came in, you know, wearing hoodies and COVID masks and usually accompanied by a family member, a wife, because these guys are inserted into society.
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They have family, some of them. And they were all carrying duffel bags because they are expecting to go straight to prison now from here.
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Absolutely. You know, it has everywhere. It started a huge conversation about this patriarchal society and the violence against women. Many people talk about there's a rape culture here, meaning that You know, serious crimes and also street harassment is not taken seriously enough. And the fact that these men said, well, they didn't rape her, but that's where there was video evidence.
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And so as painful and sordid as this trial was, and to hear it and they've seen these videos, it's having a positive impact to activists because it's a wake-up moment. People are taking it seriously. You know, there might be more... Better education now, law enforcement, and French men have been tuned in.
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Many prominent men have spoken out and said they were ashamed because these guys are not psychotic criminals. They're average men, and they're questioning the macho society.
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Well, we can call her a hero, too, because she's a petite septuagenarian, and her face is known everywhere in France. She waived her right to anonymity, insisted this trial be open to the public and the media, and she's changed everything people said. She has made shame swap sides from the victims to the rapists. They say she's succeeded in doing that.
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That is Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre's Eleanor Beardsley in Avignon.
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Occupy Gaza Plan, Ukraine Ceasefire Talks, China Economy
Not really, because no one believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin really wants to stop the war. And frankly, the proof of that is all around them. On Saturday night, Russia launched one of its biggest drone attacks yet against Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. And I was cowering in the bathroom as this battle went on for over an hour in the skies. And I stuck my phone out the window.
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Here's what it sounded like, Michelle. You know, that's the air defenses shooting down the Iranian Shahed drones. But they were overwhelmed and some got through. There were fires all night. Three people were killed, says the mayor of Kiev, and dozens wounded.
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I went yesterday to an apartment block near the river that was hit by a drone and where an older woman had burned to death in her top floor apartment. And people were gathered out front. Everybody was looking up. The apartment was blackened. The roof and ceiling were gone. Windows were blown out all around. And there was a lot of damage to the building.
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Yeah, well, they say these attacks just sort of make the talks a farce. I spoke with a 19-year-old law student, Tatiana, who was at the building. She didn't want to give her last name, but she pulled up a video on social media of the woman on the top floor's death, and she asked me to share it with Americans.
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You know, she says she wants to show Americans who say they're sick of the war that we're sick of it too. And they're exhausted by the continued and constant attacks from a country that invaded them three years ago.
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Well, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to broaden the ceasefire to include other infrastructure. He spoke last night. Here he is.
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He basically says, you know, everybody, the U.S., Europe, the world needs to put more pressure on Russia to stop this terror. And Zelensky said after the last meetings in Saudi Arabia where Russian President Vladimir Putin would only agree to stop targeting energy infrastructure, that it should be clear to everyone that Russia is the only one who's dragging out this war.
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And what is Russia expected to ask for in these talks? Russia will demand that Ukraine cede swaths of territory that the Russian army doesn't even fully control because Putin says these four regions are now part of Russia since he held illegal referendums there two years ago and annexed them. Russia wants the West to end all military aid. Europe says no way on that.
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Russia wants Ukraine to majorly scale back its military. These are maximalist demands, one analyst told me, and they're not acceptable conditions for Ukraine. But to even be able to sit down and talk face-to-face about it Ukraine says the nightly attacks on its cities must end. That is NPR's Eleanor Beardsley in Kiev.
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Well, yeah, Macron is going to try to convince Trump that it's in America's strategic interests not to make some deal with the Russians without involving the Europeans. He'll present a European action plan to help achieve a peace deal that is durable with solid guarantees that Russia won't use the time to build up its forces and invade Ukraine again.
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Macron must make Trump understand that Russia poses an existential threat to Europe. And to do this, he'll be relying on his personal friendship with President Trump. Macron is probably the closest to Trump of all the European leaders, with the exception of Hungary's Viktor Orban. And he's going to appeal to Trump's ego and inner dealmaker.
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In fact, Macron actually told us what he would say to Trump in a live question and answer session broadcast on Instagram last week. Let's have a listen.
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I'm going to tell him you can't be weak in front of Putin. That's not you. He said he'd tell Trump that's not your brand and it's not in your interest. How are you going to be credible in front of China if you're weak in front of Russia? Macron said he would also emphasize that Trump cannot help someone, i.e. Vladimir Putin, who's actually helping Iran develop the nuclear bomb.
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Well, last week there were two emergency meetings out of Paris after Trump's comments about the war. A couple dozen leaders attended. France and Britain, who are Europe's only nuclear powers, are said to be ready to provide the backbone of a European military force to secure any peace deal in Ukraine. That would include boots on the ground, in the air, and even ships at sea.
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Other countries that could join include Finland, Sweden, and the Baltics. The problem is Putin has said any European troops in Ukraine is a red line. Now, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is also expected to meet with Trump this week. I spoke with Gesina Weber. She's expert in security and defense at the U.S.-German Marshall Fund in Paris.
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And she said at first Macron and Starmer planned to meet together with Trump, but now they have separated their visits. Let's listen.
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But some analysts say it's already too late for the Europeans because Trump so wants to cut a deal with Putin.
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Well, first of all, we have to say Europe has given more for the war in Ukraine if you add military, financial, and humanitarian. But yes, this is a big wake-up call for the second time their transatlantic ally looks like it might not always have their back. So they are ready to increase. Many nations are spending more and say they will.
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But everything is going on at such an accelerated pace now, and it's going to take time to get those defense industries going.
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Thank you.
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My name is Willie and my question is, is magic real?
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Well, you know, Europeans knew the Trump administration was going to be a rougher ride than the Biden administration, but they still held out hope that the U.S. and Europe could work together, especially on ending the war in Ukraine. But that illusion burst this week. First, there was U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's He basically told European allies the U.S.
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has bigger priorities in Asia and Europe needs to take care of itself. That was followed by the Munich Security Conference this weekend, where Vice President J.D. Vance gave a scathing criticism of European democracy, a speech one European leader called, quote, fascist and anti-European.
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Vance also met with a far-right opposition leader in Germany while refusing to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Then there were the comments of U.S. advisor to Ukraine and Russia, General Keith Kellogg, who told the Europeans, we'll take your interests into account, but you won't be at the negotiating table to end the war.
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Well, that was the cherry on the cake. President Trump gave no heads up to European allies or Ukraine before holding by all accounts what was a friendly hour and a half phone call with Putin, who Europeans consider an aggressor and pariah. Trump even went so far as to speak of lifting sanctions and bringing Russia back into the fold of nations.
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Leaders left Munich yesterday morose and stunned, Ellie Tenenbaum told me. He's a security expert at the French Institute for International Relations. Let's listen.
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And he says without its European allies by its side, the U.S. might try to strong-arm Ukraine into a bad deal.
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Well, the leaders of eight nations are meeting at streamlined so they can move quickly. France, Britain, Poland, Italy, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, plus two top EU officials and the head of NATO on the agenda is increasing military spending, which might mean discarding long established EU limits on budget deficits and authorizing massive spending.
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They will speak of how to guarantee any peace. In an editorial in a British newspaper yesterday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain would be ready to send troops to ensure a peace deal. This morning, Sweden said it, too, could send troops. And France has also said it would send troops. But it will take more than a couple nations to guarantee a peace, Tenenbaum told me.
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Well, President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke forcefully at the Munich conference as soon as he saw what was happening. He says Europe must be at the negotiating table and he's pushing Europeans to join with battle-hardened Ukraine to build a European fighting force. Let's listen.
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You got applause for that, eh? French officials described today's meeting as informal, and there'll be no final communique. They're trying to tamp down expectations for what is actually a very crucial meeting.
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Thank you.