Europe scrambles for a seat at the table on Ukraine after Vance spells out collapse in relations

Europe scrambles for a seat at the table on Ukraine after Vance spells out collapse in relations




European leaders, who meet for a summit on Ukraine next week, end the week in no doubt about where they stand with the Trump administration after Vance's bracing speech.

With an attack on Europe's culture, commitment to democracy, migration policies and the “danger from within,” VP Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference — which was supposed to focus on the war in Ukraine — tore up Washington's decadeslong alliances.


Vance's silence on the almost three-year-long war also sent a clear message to Kyiv, according to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “Decades of the old relationship between Europe and America are ending," he told the conference in Munich. "From now on, things will be different, and Europe needs to adjust to that.