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European elections 2024: Ukraine at the heart of the vote?
While Ukraine’s military situation remains tense against the Russians, the subject is struggling to find its place in the French campaign for the European elections in June 2024.
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While Ukraine’s military situation remains tense against the Russians, the subject is struggling to find its place in the French campaign for the European elections in June 2024.
Devastated Ukrainian cities. Russians who are making progress on the ground. Should Ukraine be encouraged to negotiate and under what conditions? For the Republicans, Ukraine will negotiate when it sees fit. “It is not up to us to tell the Ukrainians what to do, when to negotiate. Our job is to ensure that the country is in a strong position to be able to negotiate when it needs to. will deem necessary”, estimates François-Xavier Bellamy, head of LR for Europeans. This is also the line of the presidential camp, unfailing support for Volodymyr Zelensky. Defending Ukraine helps protect Europe, according to the Greens and the Socialist Party.
On the side of Reconquest and the National Rally itself, French diplomacy must bring the Russians to negotiate. “The aggressor is Russia and therefore it is Russia that the continent must push to negotiate to put an end to this conflict”, assures Jordan Bardella, president of the RN. But the far right sets conditions. She is unfavorable to Ukraine’s entry into NATO, this military alliance which brings together countries from Europe and North America, to avoid any escalation with Russia.
