On the diplomatic component, the weeks are alike. A new summit of countries ready to guarantee a possible peace agreement in Ukraine will take place Thursday, March 27 in Paris, in the presence of Volodymyr Zelensky, announced Emmanuel Macron after a meeting in Brussels between the leaders of the 27 EU countries. “The objective for me is first of all that there is a repeated and explicit commitment […] On short-term supports in Ukraine, “said the French head of state, a few hours after a meeting in London, between the chiefs of staff in more than 25 countries, part of this” volunteer coalition “.
Info to remember
⇒ Emmanuel Macron announces a summit on March 27 in Paris
⇒ Donald Trump plans to sign “very quickly” an agreement with Ukraine on minerals
⇒ The Russian threat relaunches the debate on a new major EU loan
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The secretary of the Russian Security Council in North Korea
The secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Choïgou arrived in Pyongyang, where he will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Une, Russian agencies Tass and Ria Novosti announced on Friday. North Korea and Russia have strengthened their cooperation in recent months, mainly in the military field since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022.
The two countries signed a mutual defense agreement on the occasion of a rare visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin in North Korea last year. Subsequently, Pyongyang was accused by Westerners and South Korea of having sent troops to fight against Ukraine alongside the Russian army. This deployment has never been confirmed or informed by North Korea or by Russia. The South Korean and Western intelligence agencies estimate that the number of North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia more than 10,000 to help it reconquer the Koursk region, caught by surprise by Ukraine during the summer of 2024.
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The Russian threat relaunches the debate on a new major EU loan
Will Europe go into debt in common as during the pandemic? While the idea has long been deemed unrealistic due to the opposition of Berlin, the debate is gaining momentum in the face of massive rearmament needs to counter the Russian threat. Emmanuel Macron repeated it Thursday evening after the European Summit. The French president is “convinced” that the European Union “will have to make a common loan again” against the “wall of the debt”. But “today, it is not at all consensual” within the 27, he admitted.
Because Germany always closes the door: the German position is “well known”, eluded the outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz in Brussels. Paris still hopes that his successor, Friedrich Merz, that the French president met on Tuesday evening for almost three hours in Berlin, will be less reluctant.
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Emmanuel Macron announces a summit on March 27 in Paris with Volodymyr Zelensky and kyiv allies
Emmanuel Macron announced, Thursday, the holding of a new summit on March 27 in Paris with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the allies of Ukraine, to “finalize” in particular “short -term support for the Ukrainian army”. “We will hold a summit of the volunteer coalition next Thursday, the countries ready to contribute in one way or another to the” security guarantees “for Ukraine as part of a possible peace agreement, the French president said after a European Union council in Brussels.
“The objective for me on Thursday is first of all that there is a repeated and explicit commitment and perhaps a little specified on short-term support in Ukraine,” he said. This new summit, which follows several meetings in Paris and London since early March, will take place after talks led by the United States with Russia and Ukraine in order to ensure a limited truce, scheduled for Monday in Saudi Arabia.
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Donald Trump plans to sign “very quickly” an agreement with Ukraine on minerals
The United States will sign “very quickly” an agreement with Ukraine on minerals and rare land, very coveted by Washington, said Donald Trump on Thursday. “We are in the process of signing agreements to release minerals, rare earths and many other things in several places around the world, including Ukraine,” the American president said at a ceremony at the White House.
“One of the things we are going to do very quickly is to conclude an agreement concerning the rare earths of Ukraine, which have incredible value,” he added. The republican billionaire also ensured that he wanted to increase the production of critical minerals in the United States. “I also signed a presidential decree to drastically increase the production of significant minerals and rare earths. This is something important in this country,” he said.