Tom Nuttall

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Focused group: Ukraine is now Europe’s war · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

One is that America has disengaged, it's cut off financial aid, it's lost interest in diplomacy.

The second reason is that the election in Hungary a few weeks ago got rid of Viktor Orban, who was the veto player inside the EU on things like sanctions and aid.

And the third reason is that there's now a sense of diplomatic possibility because Ukraine has enjoyed some advances on the battlefield and with its deep strikes inside.

inside Russia and there's some hope that that might be the beginning of a process that could see Vladimir Putin come to the negotiating table.

Well, the question is, is there a strategy or is there just a bunch of tactical muddling through?

There are lots of things happening.

Thanks to the ejection of Mr.

Orban, the EU is about to begin dispersing the first tranche of a huge 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine, which will be used to fund its army and much more.

There is chatter in European circles that it might be time to think.

Think seriously about dispatching somebody or a group of people to talk directly to the Russians, which is a task that hitherto they have left to the Americans.

And maybe most importantly, the discussion about Ukraine's bid to join the European Union, which is absolutely crucial for everybody from Vladimir Zelensky to a babushka in a village somewhere in

in the countryside.

That is now gathering pace, but there are also signs of a gulf on that issue between Ukraine and its European partners.

I think basically the answer to that is no, or at least there is not yet any sign of it.

But one of the striking things in the last few weeks has been a flurry of chatter about possible names that the Europeans could send to negotiate with Mr.

Putin.

This actually began with a suggestion from Vladimir Putin himself, who a few weeks ago floated the name of Gerhard Schröder, the former German chairman.

Chancellor, who of course is very close to Russia and has become a reviled figure in Europe.

Now, that's obviously not going to happen, but some other names that were floated around, people like Angela Merkel, Mario Draghi.

Now, I think people eventually realized that we were putting the cart before the horse if we were talking about names, before we began to think about what we wanted to negotiate and how we might be able to achieve it.

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