Europe wants to negotiate about Ukraine itself: why the EU no longer wants to stand by and why this is causing tensions internally

Europe is tired of the unpredictable US policy and wants to send its own top negotiator to the Kremlin. Yet a European divide is looming: while Poland and the Baltic states do not want to act as mediators, other member states really want to enter into discussions with Russia. Putin immediately tried to appoint the controversial Gerhard Schröder as his favorite European envoy. In any case, the European envoy ends up in a diplomatic minefield. Professor Hendrik Vos (UGent) analyzes the divisions and explains why the EU can never act as a neutral mediator.

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