“Talking with Putin? For Europeans, there would be a window of opportunity to exploit. But how, who and for what? »

On the eve of three important meetings, the G7 in Evian, the European Council in Brussels and the NATO summit in Ankara, the Europeans are positioning themselves to take the lead in possible talks on the future of Ukraine while Donald Trump is bogged down in the Middle East, explains Sylvie Kauffmann, columnist for Le Monde, in her column.