EU Leaders Agree on Six-Party Team to Represent Bloc in US-Russia-Ukraine Talks

The striking detail is the composition rather than the mandate itself: four member governments, EU institutions, and a non-member in the UK, which puts London inside a European negotiating format despite its departure from the bloc. That arrangement effectively concentrates representation in a small core of large states, leaving the other member governments as spectators on a file that touches energy, sanctions and reconstruction markets. Whether this six-party structure holds together as the talks proceed, and whether the excluded capitals accept it, is the open question worth watching.