European leaders hold emergency meetings on Ukraine War to counter Trump push but cant agree on aid package

European foreign ministers held an emergency meeting Monday where they discussed how to deal with President Trump’s push to end the three-year Ukraine war — but they seemingly still can’t agree on a new aid package for Kyiv.“It’s clear that the statements coming from [the] United States make us all worried,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told reporters on Monday after a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in the Belgian capital Brussels.The draft document produced on Monday does not include a price tag, although an earlier version of the agreement earmarked almost $6.3 billion.Politico Europe reported the aid tranche could be up to $21 billion.However, Hungary’s foreign minister warned that the NATO member would not support new payments to Ukraine, and instead said that Europe should back Trump’s push for peace.

A number of Europe’s leaders have warned that the region is entering a new era following what many see as President Trump’s sidelining of them with last week’s peace talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia as well as his direct contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.On Sunday, the winner of Germany’s general election Friedrich Merz questioned whether NATO would still exist in its “current form” by the summer as he called on Europe to quickly establish its own independent defense capability.“The era that started at the fall of the Berlin Wall is now over,” the Dutch Foreign Minister Casper Veldkamp told reporters on Monday when asked about the remarks by Germany’s likely next chancellor.“As Europeans, we need to organize, not only within the EU but with the Brits and the Norwegians and other countries that want to participate, to face the new challenges that are presented to us, also by Trump,” he said.“You can discuss whatever you want with Putin, but if it comes to Europe or Ukraine, then Ukraine and Europe also have to agree to this deal,” Kallas said at the meeting, held on the third anniversary o...