{"id":33575,"date":"2025-02-17T12:11:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/european-leaders-meet-as-us-and-russia-lock-them-out-of-ukraine-talks-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:11:32","slug":"european-leaders-meet-as-us-and-russia-lock-them-out-of-ukraine-talks-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/european-leaders-meet-as-us-and-russia-lock-them-out-of-ukraine-talks-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"European leaders meet as US and Russia lock them out of Ukraine talks | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting, convened by Emmanuel Macron, comes as US officials prepare for talks in Riyadh with their Russian counterparts. Plus, the comprehensive ridiculing of New Zealand\u2019s tourism campaign<\/p>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>US officials are preparing to hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/16\/ukraine-summit-paris-macron-european-leaders-us-russia\">preliminary negotiations in Riyadh with Russia over Ukraine<\/a>, as European powers meet in Paris to demand the inclusion of Kyiv and themselves in the talks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who will attend the Paris summit?<\/strong> The French president, Emmanuel Macron, who is convening the talks, Germany\u2019s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, Poland\u2019s prime minister, Donald Tusk, and the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What role is the UK playing?<\/strong> An active one \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/feb\/16\/starmer-ready-to-put-british-troops-on-the-ground-in-ukraine-if-peace-deal-reached\">Starmer on Sunday said he was prepared to put British troops<\/a> on the ground in Ukraine to safeguard peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How will this <\/strong><strong>affect consumers?<\/strong> Expect to see rising prices, Stiglitz said, adding that almost all economists agree with this: it is just a question of magnitude.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/17\/first-thing-european-leaders-meet-us-russia-lock-them-out-ukraine-talks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting, convened by Emmanuel Macron, comes as US officials prepare for talks in Riyadh with their Russian counterparts. Plus, the comprehensive ridiculing of New Zealand\u2019s tourism campaign Good morning. US officials are preparing to hold preliminary negotiations in Riyadh with Russia over Ukraine, as European powers meet in Paris to demand the inclusion of &#8230; <a title=\"European leaders meet as US and Russia lock them out of Ukraine talks | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/european-leaders-meet-as-us-and-russia-lock-them-out-of-ukraine-talks-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about European leaders meet as US and Russia lock them out of Ukraine talks | First Thing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}