Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized the emergency summit of European leaders in Paris, calling it as "anti-Trump," the ANSA news outlet reported on Feb. 17.
She arrived at the summit when the negotiations were already underway. After the meeting, Meloni expressed her disagreement with the proposals and the list of invitees, stressing the importance of keeping Brussels as the only place for decision-making by all 27 EU member states.
She also spoke out against the anti-Trump format of the summit.
"The United States is working for peace, and we have to play our part," Meloni said, adding that any peace talks would likely fail without U.S. involvement and adequate security guarantees for Ukraine.
Earlier in the day, the Financial Times reported that European leaders had failed to reach an agreement on the possible deployment of peacekeepers to Ukraine during the summit.
The leaders of Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, as well as the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met on Feb. 17 for an emergency summit of European leaders called by French President Emmanuel Macron after the Munich Security Conference.
