Weimar Triangle, France-Germany and Poland: Against Russian interference
The so-called Weimar Triangle, France-Germany and Poland, will hold a meeting to take measures against Russian interference.
The foreign ministers of the Weimar Triangle countries, Germany, France and Poland, will announce at a meeting on Monday, February 12, certain measures against Russia.
The Weimar Triangle meeting will discuss a joint project to combat disinformation, including alleged Russian interference in Europe.
French Chancellor Stéphane Séjourné sees the growing number of fake and wave of disinformation in the region as a threat.
“Our three states are victims of the same destabilization strategy, on Monday we will announce a new cooperation against Russian disinformation and information attacks,” the minister said in an interview with the newspaper Ouest France.
According to the head of French diplomacy, the ministers of the Weimar Triangle “will explain to the public in a transparent manner the tools of this disinformation” and provide “evidence”.
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Front against Russian interference: Weimar Triangle
The foreign ministers of the Weimar Triangle will meet near Paris.
On the other hand, the Weimar Triangle, France-Germany-Poland “will help Ukraine as long as necessary” while Kiev’s counter-offensive succeeds in forcing a negotiation, their leaders assured Monday during a meeting in Paris.
Last year, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Andrzej Duda, met at the Elysee in the format known as the Weimar Triangle, to point out the importance of offering Ukraine a perspective of stability and security once the conflict is over.
France-Germany and Poland, members of the Weimar Triangle, are working on a mechanism to respond to Russian attempts at interference, details of which will be provided at the end of the meeting of their foreign ministers tomorrow, Monday, in Saint Cloud, just outside Paris.
French diplomatic sources explained that it has become clear that Russia’s will is to attack democracies and that for that purpose it uses various forms, such as computer robots, operations to buy politicians or disinformation campaigns.
No interference in the region
The meeting of the heads of diplomacy of France, Stéphane Sejourné, Germany, Annalena Baerbock, and Poland, Radoslav Sikorski, has as its main objective precisely “the fight against foreign interference” by means of a common warning and response mechanism.
The three ministers also have on their agenda a number of security and peace issues, among which the focus is on how to “help Ukraine win the war and Russia lose it,” according to the same sources.
That includes in particular how to materialize aid in the military field, after the extraordinary EU summit on February 1 agreed on a €50 billion package for the period 2024-2027.
Paris’ argument is that to strengthen European defense is to strengthen “the European pillar of NATO.”
Moreover, France insists that the EU has to be prepared for any political scenario in the United States, also that of a Donald Trump victory in the November presidential election.
Sejourné, Baerbock and Sikorski will also address other international policy issues, such as the war in the Middle East and cooperation with Africa.
The Weimar Triangle was established in the city of Weimar in 1991 in the spirit of helping Poland emerge from communism.
Since then, they have engaged in a series of meetings to strengthen joint and bloc strategies.
