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Morning opening: Zelenskyy visits Macron in Paris
Jakub Krupa
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to meet France’s president Emmanuel Macron in Paris in just under an hour as he kicks off another busy week of diplomacy amid growing pressure from the US to end the war with Ukraine.
“Peace is within reach, if Vladimir Putin abandons his delusional hope of reconstituting the Soviet empire by first subjugating Ukraine,” the French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, told La Tribune Dimanche.
Well, that’s a big if.
Over the weekend, Ukrainian negotiators have met US officials in Florida to thrash out details of Washington’s proposed framework to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Diplomats focused on revisions to a proposed 28-point plan developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow. That plan has been criticised as being too weighted toward Russian demands.
Meanwhile, EU ministers are meeting in Brussels for talks on foreign and defence issues, and US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will head to Moscow ahead of planned talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Lots for us to cover.
Elsewhere, German chancellor Friedrich Merz will host Poland’s Donald Tusk in Berlin for the latest round of intergovernmental consultations between the two countries.
Ukraine will no doubt top the agenda, but the meeting comes as positive sentiment towards Germany in Poland hits near record lows, prompting awkward questions about the relationship, as I try to explain it in this curtainraiser here.
I will bring you all the key updates throughout the day.
It’s Monday, 1 December 2025, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.
Good morning.
