The European Union must participate in negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine in order to shape Europe’s future security architecture, European Council President Antonio Costa said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Monday.

If US President Donald Trump wants Europeans to take a greater share of responsibility for their safety, then of course Europeans must be a key factor in planning the new security architecture, “Mr Costa said in an interview with the newspaper. .

The theme “is not only Ukraine,” Mr Costa said in an interview, which he gave on the sidelines of the Munich Conference on Security at the weekend. “Negotiations on the new security architecture must bear in mind that Russia is a global threat, not just a threat to Ukraine,” he added.

The interview is published on the day that European leaders meet in a hurry to discuss developments in Ukraine and wider issues related to Epirus security.

It is noted that the US decision to launch bilateral talks with Russia has raised concerns between European leaders who fear EU exclusion. In response, French President Emmanuel Macron called on a summit in Paris, where European leaders They will score a common strategy to ensure their participation in future negotiations.

The United States and Russia is going to have talks in Saudi Arabia on a possible peace deal on Ukraine. In an effort to degrade Europeans’ concerns, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made it clear that any “real” negotiation would include Ukraine and European countries.