EU to lead talks on support for Ukraine with US, Nato, partners – Europe live

Meanwhile, Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre told Reuters: “This is a powerful political signal about a change of course among American voters. Voices are ⁠now emerging in American politics that are closer to us than the president and the administration have stood for, for example on climate and environment, and in foreign policy and development aid policy. “

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, who also clashed with Trump in recent months, wasn’t in the mood to offer any reaction to the US elections this morning, as she told reporters, via Corriere: “We’ll talk about America some other time. Right now, it’s Armed Forces Day, 4 November.”

But opposition politicians celebrated the result, with former prime minister Matteo Renzi calling it “wonderful” and a response to Trump’s “abuse” of his position. “Trump has another two years to go, but the Maga movement has been severely weakened, if not defeated.” MEP Sandro Gozi said the electorate’s verdict “offers renewed hope that the next two years will mark the beginning of the end of the Trump era.”

Meanwhile, Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski ridiculed the Polish right, which has been supportive of Trump since his return to the office. Paraphrasing Jesus’s words from the Bible (sic!)

, he said: “Truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, they will disown him three times” He also took swipe at US billionaire Elon Musk who donated hundreds of millions of dollars into Republican campaigns, reposting his comment from one of their previous clashes, saying: “See, big man, politics is harder than you thought.”

For what it’s worth, Musk also appeared to see a funny side in his involvement in the campaign, saying: “Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time.”

in Madrid Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez – who has been Donald Trump’s most vociferous European critic – is celebrating last night’s results in the US, hailing them as proof of a progressive fightback and of the “crumbling” of what he called the “ultra wave”. “Yesterday, American society voted against the policies that only impoverish,” he posted on X. “Against hate. Against sexism.

Against climate denialism and against the privileges of the elites.” Sánchez, who faces an uphill battle to secure another term in office in Spain’s general election at the end of the month, added: “It happened in Brazil. It just happened in the US. And it will happen soon in Spain.”

With most eyes still on the US this morning, Brussels is quietly getting on with the task of leading on discussions about the next round of support for Ukraine. The European Commission will hold talks with the US, France, Germany, Britain, Nato, and the World Bank, looking what can be done to help Kyiv throughout the winter and how to support the US-led peace process with the upcoming negotiations in Abu Dhabi. Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said US negotiators would meet with their European partners in Brussels. Their talks come after another night of heavy attacks on Ukraine, hitting power stations in Kyiv and Zhytomyr and a cargo vessel at sea near Odesa.