The European Union (EU) renewed sanctions against Russia and agreed on a roadmap to collect some of the other people imposed on Syria. At an EU Foreign Ministers’ Assembly on Monday, leaders also called for a unified technique for dealing with US President Donald. Trump and what analysts call his “department and rules policy. ”
The EU’s most sensible diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said the U. S. has embarked on a “transactional” foreign policy, Europe wants to “close ranks. ”
“We are stronger when we are united,” she told reporters.
According to Dr. Zsuzsanna Vegh, a program officer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Trump intends to weaken the EU and deal with the countries bilaterally.
“European leaders at the Festival for the attention of Trump’s management will have a negative effect on the EU unit,” he told DW. “And Trump’s help in the Extrem Right European Aspitic euro can weaken the union. “
While no one is transparent about how precisely Trump’s policy will take its position in the coming weeks, and fears of an industry war continue to grow, there is hope that it will be simple for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Later, European diplomats seemed relieved that Trump threatened to hit Russia with high price lists and even more sanctions if he didn’t end the war that Moscow began to oppose to Kiev.
Kallas said intelligently that Trump had exerted “more pressure” on Russia and made transparent that the burden of ending the war meets Putin.
The Europeans are taking Trump’s stern words against Russia as a positive sign. Experts say the US president’s position likely took Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is more Putin-friendly than the rest of EU leaders, by surprise.
The EU renewed sanctions against Russia that industry with the country and froze billions in sovereign assets.
“Europe delivers,” Kallas published in X when he showed the renewal of the sanctions that arise each and every six months. “This will continue depriving Moscow’s source of income to finance their war,” he added. “Russia will have to pay the damage they cause. ”
Orban had blocked the procedure and threatened to oppose his veto of the extension if the EU did not make Ukraine send Russian fuel through its pipelines in Hungary. Earlier this month, Ukraine will not renew an agreement that would allow Russian energy resources to circulate on its territory.
Orban said he was putting the “handbrake” on sanctions renewal and claimed Hungary had been losing billions since Ukraine stopped Russian energy supplies.
“If the Ukrainians help, for example, to sanction the Russians, then allow them to reopen the fuel pipeline and allow them to allow Central European countries, adding Hungary, to import the fuel we want through Ukraine,” Orban said.
But then Orban gave.
The Reuters news firm said that the EU Commission has published a statement that says that in a position to continue discussions with Ukraine “in Europe it offers through the fuel pipe in Ukraine according to the foreign obligations of Ukraine “
The Commission also said it would involve Hungary and Slovakia in the process.
“The Ukrainian Commission will apply for insurance on the maintenance of pipeline transfers to the EU,” he added.
But the statement said nothing about whether it would ask Ukraine to resume supply of Russian gas, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has flatly refused.
“We will not let the Russians profit,” he told the press last week as he offered to set up an alternative: to let Azerbaijan supply gas to those European nations in need.
Experts say that after the Russian government’s caution through Trump that ended in “ridiculous war” and that “concludes a deal,” Orban found himself in a quandary.
Vegh said that Orban’s resignation with respect to EU sanctions reflected that “took into account the US position. ”
“[Orban] was waiting for Trump to interfere with respect to the war in a way to get Putin advantages and he,” Vegh said. Trump’s position would possibly have surprised Hungary, he added. Orban “had to mitigate his objections” to the renewal of the sanctions opposed to Russia, and now he is forced to “navigate carefully with his ties with Moscow and Washington. ”
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The EU is also assessing progress in Syria, the transitional authority of the Islamist organization Hayat Tahir Al Sham (HTS), a former Al-Qaeda affiliate, as it raises sanctions opposed to the war-torn country.
The block agreed with a “roadmap to facilitate sanctions” while retaining the option to impose them if Syria did not shape the inclusive government, or if it accused of serious violations of human rights.
Julien Barnes-Dacey, director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), said there was an expanding consensus in Europe on the need for an immediate motion on sanctions relief, “even if there is a preference to ensure a certain degree of conditionality and reversibility to a safe leverage effect in the new authorities. “
“The antistnetic state of the economy is obviously one of the most demanding situations that face a positive transition,” Barnes-Dacey told DW. “Existe una amenaza genuina de que si el país se estabiliza, las cosas pueden empeorar rápidamente”.
Edited by: Carla Bleiker