The German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, pointed out this Thursday that there will be meetings on Ukraine over the weekend with the participation of a US delegation, with the idea that contacts will continue in Berlin next week to discuss issues such as territorial transfers in Ukraine.
“We made the suggestion that we, together with the US administration, should finalize the discussions on the documents,” Merz explained about the contacts with the US president, Donald Trump, in the call in which the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, also participated.
Merz has indicated that the latest document discussed and sent to Washington addresses the “territorial concessions that Ukraine could accept.” “This is a question that the Ukrainian president must answer,” he said at the press conference held with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, visiting Germany this Thursday.
In this sense, the German Chancellor has indicated that there will be talks with the US administration over the weekend “and there could be a meeting at the beginning of next week” in the German capital to continue this debate.
“Whether or not the US administration will participate in this meeting depends largely on the documents we will work on at that time,” he said, although he was optimistic about working with Trump on this ‘roadmap’.
Thus he said that in the phone call with Trump he had “the clear impression” that the North American president was open to working with European partners. “He knows that Europeans want and should be listened to with their own interests,” he stated.