Europe tries to shore up fragile unity as it realises it cannot rely on US

<p>Leaders attend Paris summit for urgent talks on Ukraine after week that showed how far values have diverged</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/feb/17/europe-live-european-leaders-paris-ukraine-future-peace-summit-us-russia-latest-updates-news">Europe live – latest updates</a></li></ul><p>They came smiling, but the task was immense. After dozens of summits at which a hesitant and discordant EU had failed to agree on anything like a cohesive plan for the end of the war in Ukraine, this one had, suddenly and vitally, to be different.</p><p>The leaders of France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain and – speaking for the Nordic and Baltic states – Denmark, plus Britain’s prime minister and the heads of Nato and the European Commission and Council, arrived in Paris reeling from a historic week.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/17/europe-tries-to-shore-up-fragile-unity-as-it-realises-it-cannot-rely-on-us">Continue reading...</a>