https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-who-is-in-europes-coalition-of-the-willing/a-71823102
Ahead of a summit later this week, some European leaders are sounding out plans to secure an eventual ceasefire in Ukraine. DW looks at which nations are ready to play a role and which aren’t.
Paris and London intend to work on the peace plan together with one or two other states, Starmer announced Sunday. The detailed plan would then be presented to the United States.
Starmer is banking on a “coalition of the willing” to secure a possible peace plan militarily. Some states already declared themselves ready to participate.
While it is not yet clear which countries would take part and in what capacity, some initial indications are trickling in.
There are three things that our boy Emmanuel Macron wants to happen.
- The Coalition of the Willing
- Concentric Circles or Government
- The EPC European Political Community.
All three have been “in the working” since Macron took office in 2017.
The third aim of EU reform set out in the Report is to make the EU’s institutions ‘enlargement ready’. The Franco-German proposal suggests a Europe of four concentric circles: the inner circle of members of the euro area and Schengen; the EU; the EU plus the associated members; and the European Political Community.
But the question is: how to avoid tension between the inner circle of members and the outer circle of the European Political Community? How do we square the circles in other words? According to the Report, the “associated members” would be countries that subscribe to the EU’s principles and single market without becoming full-fledged EU members. UK can become an ‘associate member’ of the European Union (even though all the major UK political parties have rejected single market membership).
Look for the EPC to take control of everything. No EU…