Greece's Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis told Fox News Digital in an interview before meeting with Sec. Marco Rubio that he believed Europe should be in charge of Ukraine's security guarantees, with U.
But President Trump has implied that reliance on the US is naive and needy.
Europe soaked up most U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for the second straight month in February, as cold weather and strong prices pushed up demand for the superchilled gas across the Atlantic,
Europeans would need to ramp up military spending quickly, a notion that has set off a market rally, led by defense stocks.
European leaders met in London to formulate a plan to help end the war in Ukraine. But even potential peacekeepers face political and economic hurdles.
Inflation in Europe eased to 2.4% in February, supporting the case for another interest rate cut from the European Central Bank but leaving open how far the central bank will go in lowering borrowing costs.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet European leaders at a vital summit in London on Sunday, after his extraordinary argument with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office left Western allies reeling and threw the future of the Russia-Ukraine war into deep uncertainty.