German Chancellor Olaf Scholz left the conference on Ukraine in Switzerland on June 16 in the morning before its conclusion, the agency DPA reported .
According to his information, Scholz has scheduled meetings in Berlin. Which are not specified.
At the same time, the magazine Der Spiegel wrote that Scholz was forced to leave the conference “earlier than planned” because he was leading "difficult negotiations" on the budget and "serious negotiations" with Germany's own Social Democratic Party (SPD) in light of its failure in the European Parliament elections. The GSDP received only 13.9% of the vote, its worst result in a national election. In the capital of Germany, an extraordinary meeting of the presidium of the Social Democrats will be held, at which, among other things, the future of the “traffic light coalition” will be discussed.
Earlier, US Vice President Kamala Harris also left the conference in Switzerland.
The conference on Ukraine takes place on June 15-16 in the Bürgenstock resort. Bern invited more than 160 delegations, including from the Group of Seven, the Group of Twenty and the BRICS countries. But as the organizers announced on the eve of the meeting, not all have sent their representatives: 91 countries, the Serbian region of Kosovo and 8 international organizations are present. 55 countries delegated heads of state and government. In Bürgenstock, the group of countries of the collective West is numerically dominant, which leaves no hope for a balanced discussion.