Ukraine on borrowed time? Zelensky in Europe amid far-right surge

François PICARD | Alessandro XENOS | Rebecca GNIGNATI | Elisabeth BRAW | Gulliver CRAGG | Anastasiya SHAPOCHKINA | Tetyana Nikolayenko

Edité par France 24 - 2024

We ask about plans to sell state assets to pay for the war and Western backers looking over their shoulders after Sunday's European elections. The far right National Rally, which borrowed money from Russia for a 2017 campaign loan, did so well in France that the president triggered snap legislative elections. Fears that supporting Ukraine could lead to World War Three resonate with Marine Le Pen's voters and the far left. 

That's the mood music that takes Zelensky from Berlin, to Thursday’s G7 summit, to the one he is organising this coming weekend in Switzerland in a bid to rally support for a long-term plan. What's at stake in the days ahead?

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Rebecca Gnignati and Juliette Brown. 

Note
  • Let's start with the good news for Ukraine. Long-range weapons from the West have finally arrived, with more on the way, and the Russian offensive of the past month seems to be stalling. Now for the not-so-good news. As Volodymyr Zelensky lobbies a repair and reconstruction conference in Berlin, his country might be on borrowed time.

Langue
anglais
Date de publication
12/06/2024
Collection
The Debate
Contributeurs
Elisabeth BRAW Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and Columnist for Foreign Policy
Gulliver CRAGG FRANCE 24 correspondent
Anastasiya SHAPOCHKINA President of Eastern Circles Think Tank and Lecturer in Geopolitics, Sciences Po
Tetyana Nikolayenko Investigative journalist

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