Tom Nuttall

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

So that discussion has settled down for now.

But it is certainly clear to me talking to people across Europe that there's now a readiness to think about this much more seriously than there was in the past.

But the bottom line is that the sense in Europe is that it is not yet time for a serious negotiation with Vladimir Putin.

This is crucial.

If you go back to 2014, when you remember the Maidan revolution and Ukrainians swarmed that square in Kiev, carrying EU flags, ever since then, there's been a strong feeling in Ukraine that this is the destiny of the country to turn their back on Russia corruption, authoritarianism, and move towards the European Union.

Now, the EU was not interested in that for quite a while.

But then, a few months after the full-scale invasions in 2022, they accepted Ukraine as official candidate.

And this was a big move.

But the Ukrainians, understandably, they want much more and they want it to move much more quickly.

The thing that I worry about is that there's a growing gulf between these kind of sky-high aspirations that you find in Ukraine.

There's talk about joining a

soon as next year, twenty twenty seven.

And a deep sense of skepticism amongst Europeans that Ukraine is going to be ready, anything like that pace.

And let's remember: this is a big country with weak institutions, big problems with corruption and the rule of law.

It's much poorer, even than the poorest member of the EU, Bulgaria.

So there is a sense in Europe that we have to slow this thing down.

Yes, maybe we can think.

Creatively about how to adjust our own processes so that this thing can move in a more accelerated fashion.

And there have been some suggestions in that regard from the German Chancellor of Project Merz a couple of weeks ago.

But if you talk to people off the record, you get a sense that if we don't do something to address the growing gulf between two sides, this process could go seriously off the rails.

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