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France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot stated that European leaders would not attend the peace summit scheduled for June 24 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The event aims to discuss a possible framework for ceasefire negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
Former President Traian Băsescu rejected the idea that Romania should pay for the stationing of American troops, labeling it a Polish idea, and attributed this to the endpoint of a 'fool's policy,' criticizing the reliance on direct meetings with Trump at the expense of relations with Congress.
Analyst Ștefan Popescu estimates that, after Republicans' defeat in the midterm elections, Donald Trump will rely on foreign policy to score points, without a radical shift in alignment towards Europe, but with a different rhetoric.
