On Thursday, July 10 and Friday, July 11, Rome will host the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025. Opening the work on the first day will be Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. More than 90 countries and 80 heads of state and government are expected at the EUR space’s “Nuvola”, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Meloni and Merz will connect via video conference to the summit of the “Coalition of the Willing”, convened by Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer at Northwood Air Base, just outside London. Both the French President and the UK Prime Minister will therefore not be present at the Rome conference. Instead, representatives from 2,000 companies will be present. The Volunteers were formed in February with the goal of structuring a force of peacekeepers in Ukraine after the ceasefire. Rome's is the fourth conference on Ukraine's recovery, following events in Lugano (2022), London (2023) and Berlin (2024).
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