As for the Ukraine War, the United States and the EU now want a particularly hard attitude towards aggressor Russia.
“They agreed that maximum pressure on Moscow should be maintained to achieve an honest and permanent peace in Ukraine,” said an EU representative on Tuesday after the first telephone conversation between the EU outside country Kaja Kallas and the new one American minister Marco Rubio.
Shortly thereafter, the EU committee proposed punitive rates for other agricultural products from Russia. The rates “would probably have a negative influence on Russian export income and therefore also on Russia’s ability to wage his aggression war against Ukraine,” said it in a statement. However, the rates must still be decided by the EU Member States and the European Parliament.
Take more responsibility
On the phone call between Kallas and Rubio, the EU representative said that the two most important diplomats had emphasized how important it was to “strengthen cooperation between the EU and the US in important global questions, including the war in Russia in Ukraine, the situation In the middle east and the challenges of China ”. In turn, Kallas had emphasized the “increasing investments in Europe in the defense” and the European “willingness to take more responsibility” and the “importance of diversifying the supply of energy sources”.
Trump demands more Defense spending on Europeans
More than a week after finding the new US President Donald Trump, the attitude of the new government to Ukraine remains difficult to decode. In the election campaign, Trump repeatedly criticized the extensive American military aid for Ukraine, but after his arrival, Russia endangered extra sanctions if the country does not conclude a peace agreement. After his inauguration, Trump also threatened the EU member states with punitive rates, because only in this way the United States is “treated correctly”. Trump also called on Europeans to spend five percent of their annual economic production for defense. In December Trump asked the EU countries to import more oil and gas from the United States to prevent rates.
Source: Krone
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