Europe Says Putin Has No Veto. Fine — Then Pay the €7 Billion Bill.

Brussels is rejecting a U.S.-Russia security deal "over our heads." But NATO allies are about €7 billion short on their own Ukraine pledge for this year — and much of the shortfall is for American weapons they promised to buy.

By Clara Hughes

Europe found its voice this week. “Putin does not have a veto over European security,” the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said in Warsaw on Friday, Kyiv Post reported. “Any agreement that we are not party of, we are not going to implement either.” Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, called an arrangement on Europe’s future made “above our heads” not just unwise but “actually impossible.” They were answering President Trump, who after meeting Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev talked of a “big, beautiful agreement” that “might involve all of Europe,” POLITICO reported, and his envoy Jared Kushner, who laid out five goals for a broader European security framework. Fair enough. Europeans want