(L-R) German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner attend a Press Conference during the ‘Coalition Of The Willing’ meeting in Paris. Photo: Tom Nicholson/Getty Images

Several hours after issuing an unprecedented statement against President Trump’s threats to take over Greenland, the leaders of France, Germany and the U.K. stood side by side with Trump’s top advisers in Paris and announced joint security guarantees for Ukraine.

Why it matters: The events of the last few days — in particular, Trump’s renewed threats on Greenland in the aftermath of the Venezuela raid — left real doubts in Europe about whether the transatlantic alliance still exists.