Who is at the table?
| Role | Confirmed participant |
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| Chair | Antonio Tajani – Foreign Minister, Italy |
| Ukraine | Andriy Sybiha – FM, Ukraine |
| NATO | Mark Rutte – Secretary-General |
| EU | High Representative Kaja Kallas |
| Germany | Johann Wadephul (FM a.i.) |
| France | Senior MFA representative |
| Poland | Senior MFA representative |
| UK & Spain | Foreign-ministry envoys |
The “Weimar +” format extends the original Weimar Triangle (Germany-France-Poland) by adding Italy as host plus key security stakeholders.
Core items on the 12 June agenda
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“Just-peace” architecture for Ukraine
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Alignment ahead of the Swiss-hosted peace conference and July’s G7/EU/NATO summits.
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Road-map for sequencing cease-fire, troop withdrawal, reparations and security guarantees.
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Sanctions & asset-freeze next steps
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Fine-tuning the EU’s 14th sanctions package.
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Technical brief on channeling more windfall profits from frozen Russian sovereign assets into the new Ukraine Facility and Denmark-model defence funds.
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Defence-industrial scaling
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Joint procurement of air-defence, artillery and drones; incentives for EU/UK firms to co-produce inside Ukraine.
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Status of the NATO Ukraine Defence Industry Council and €40 bn ammunition pledge.
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Preparation for the Rome Ukraine-Recovery Conference (10-11 July)
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Aligning public-sector guarantees with IFC, EBRD and private-equity pipelines.
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Priority corridors: energy-grid rebuild, critical minerals processing, rail & Danube logistics.
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Why investors should watch
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Defence offsets & co-production. New policy signals here can unlock insurance and export-credit cover for EU/UK primes willing to localise in western Ukraine.
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Asset-profit mechanism. Clarification on the legal pathway for using Russia’s immobilised reserves will define the scale of concessional finance available for PPP projects.
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Reconstruction pipeline. Commitments hammered out on 12 June feed directly into July’s Rome URC 2025, where a €50-60 bn project slate (energy, logistics, digital) will be marketed to strategic investors.
Quote – Andriy Sybiha
“Our focus in Rome is two-fold: tighten sanctions until aggression is unaffordable and build the investment architecture that will reconstruct Ukraine on modern, EU-standard lines.”
The outcomes of Thursday’s “Weimar +” session will set the tone for both immediate military resourcing and the medium-term capital-investment cycle in post-war Ukraine.
