LONDON, June 7 -- For months, Europe has watched the push to end the war in Ukraine proceed on terms it had little hand in setting. The Americans held meetings in Anchorage and Miami. The Turks offered Istanbul. European capitals were invited to observe, or not at all. On Sunday morning, France's foreign minister signalled that arrangement may be changing - and that Kyiv itself is driving the change.

Speaking on RTL radio ahead of the evening's four-way summit at Downing Street, Jean-Noel Barrot said that Volodymyr Zelensky had now explicitly asked Europe to occupy a more prominent place in any peace process. "Zelensky has now expressed a desire for Europe to be able to occupy a more important place, to play a more significant role," Bar...