EU Plan B if Trump stepping down from Ukrainian talks

The US State Department recently ended with Russia and Ukraine and warned the parties that if there were no positive results in peace talks, the United States would withdraw its role as mediator in the negotiations.

“The European Union is ready for a Plan B on how to maintain sanctions against Russia, if US President Donald Trump’s administration leaves Ukrainian negotiations and moves close to relations with Russia,” the Financial Times reports.

“The question is whether Americans want to get out of the negotiations,” EU foreign policy chief Kaya Calas told the Financial Times. “We see, of course, that they seem to have to abandon Ukraine and not go into the agreement because it is a difficult task.”

“Trump’s proposals for economic proximity to Moscow as part of a peace agreement have raised the concern that some EU countries will also call on Brussels to lift EU sanctions against Russia in the coming months,” the British newspaper writes.

“European officials are also concerned about the consequences that the United States will potentially allow its companies to resume economic cooperation with Russia, while EU trade is still prohibited from doing so,” said the Financial Times.

“If Hungary wants to veto economic sanctions against Russia in July, we will unveil another plan to maintain economic pressures,” Calis said.

Unlike many EU member states, Hungary has rejected the sending of any deadly weapons to Ukraine and focuses on a peaceful solution to the conflict. It has also repeatedly criticized the EU sanctions against Russia, and its prime minister has described the sanctions and restrictions as a “failure” that merely worsens the energy crisis.

“We have a different plan, but we have to work on the first plan first,” he said, adding that he is in Washington and other Western partners to maintain Russian sanctions.

The Financial Times reported earlier: “One of the options is to adopt the sanctions to circumvent Hungarian veto, the Financial Times reportedly; “Like Belgium’s royal decree to block € 5 billion of Russian government assets on Belgium.”

The Belgian government has refused to comment.

However, the EU’s foreign policy chief, however, has acknowledged that there were talks and consultations with some countries of the Union who would follow Washington if Trump resigned from negotiations and relations with Moscow.

“It is clear that such talks are going on in some member states, and we may hope that we will no longer have to support Ukraine,” he said. But this is also a misguided hope because if you look at Russia, they invest more than 5 % of their GDP in the army and want to use it again. “

Calas said Europe could act financially to help Ukraine if the US leaves the negotiations, but acknowledged that “it is more difficult to fill the gap if the Americans abandon it.”

The EU senior official in his interview with the Financial Times confessed that Brussels and other European capitals are trying to persuade Americans not to withdraw from Ukrainian negotiations and that the Russians do not reach what they want.

“No country from the European Union recognizes the Crimea as part of Russian territory,” said Kaya Calas, who will recognize the US stance on Crimea, which will recognize it. I also don’t understand why America accepts such things, but we can’t speak instead of America and their action. But we have said from Europe and again say that Crimea is for Ukraine. “

In the end, he claimed: “There are tools in the hands of the Americans that can use Russia to end the war. “President Trump has said he wants to stop the killing and that he should put pressure on the one who does the killing.”

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