The president of France, Enmanuel Macron, has been the First European leader that visit the White House after the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20. Next Thursday will be the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Macron has described this meeting as “very friendly” and has confirmed that It has been “very good”. Both leaders have gathered just when three years after the beginning of the Ukraine War.
“Our common objectiveclearly, is to build peace, a solid and lasting peace, “Macron said in statements to the press in the Oval Office of the White House after the meeting.
“This is precisely what we are going to discuss, because I have great respect for the value and resistance of the Ukrainian people. We share the objective of peace, but we are very aware of the need to have guarantees to achieve a stable peace that allows Stabilize the situation “added.
A meeting with a “friend”
Macron explained that he has attended this meeting as “friend” since France and the United States have been allies for centuries. The French president has described his relationship with Trump as “Personal Friendship” And he has assured that during the first mandate of the American they worked “very well.”
Macron has spoken in the name of Europe and has transmitted to the US president that the continent is willing to “give a step forward To be a stronger partner “, coinciding with Trump’s demands, which asks European countries to contribute more funds to Ukraine.
Small moment of tension between both
Although half an hour of a press conference has elapsed in an animated tone, with smiles between them, they have starred a small moment of tension when Trump has said that Europe gives Ukraine Your “loan” help They then recover.
Trump was referring to what he recently said that the United States does not know where he is the money he lent to Ukraine. Macron, who has made a slight grimace At this time, he has replicated: “We have paid 60% of the total debt.” To which Trump has limited himself to responding: “If you believe it, it seems good to me.”
Despite Trump’s insistence that the United States has given more help to Ukraine than EU, it isn’t truesince European countries and the EU have allocated 132,000 million euros, while Washington has allocated $ 114,000 million in total assistance.
Trump confirms a future meeting with Zelenski
Asked by President Zelenski, Donald Trump has confirmed that “This week or the coming” He will meet with him to sign an agreement on rare earths. “We are very close to a final agreement on rare earths and I would like to come here To sign that agreement “has sentenced.
Trump has manifested himself in this way, when a few days ago he called the Ukrainian president “dictator.” Word that He has refused to use To refer to Putin, since it is not a word that uses “lightly.”
In addition, he said he will meet with Putin “at some point” but that he does not know when.
