The European Union welcomed with surprise and anger Russia’s decision to ban flights to the Austrian and French airlines for Moscow by a detour around Belarus, which the EU “punished” by banning flights over its territory.
European analysts and the media are asking whether the problem of Belarus, along with other planetary troubles, will be substantially resolved at the meeting of American and Russian leaders in Geneva in mid-June, ie without the EU, because Washington did not inform Brussels about that meeting.
EU leaders will try to establish a new strategy for relations with Russia in June, in an effort to agree on what they can and cannot find a common language with Moscow, but it will no longer be just a policy of sanctions, because it has been shown without real performance, as announced by French President Emanuel Macron.
Now the eyes of Europeans are focused on what will be the new, albeit closer, cooperation with Washington, and that is why the meeting of US and Russian Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva is seen as proof that “American arrogance and attitude of excellence still exist” in relation to the Union.
Now it is “more friendly” than the position of the previous American president Donald Trump that the EU is an “opponent”, as the opinion of some EU leaders is transmitted by the Brussels portal “Politiko”.
“Russia is a world power with Ukraine, and without it a regional player”
So, the European Union is again waiting for what and whether the leaders of the USA and Russia will settle when it comes to world problems, but those that concern Europe the most.
Belarus is the biggest burning problem for the entire old continent, much less Belarus, but primarily Ukraine, although the “Maidan revolution” there was once supported by key threads and is still held by America, which then blocked the EU’s attempt to find a compromise between government and opposition. and Russia.
Since the Cold War, the position of several previous American administrations that “Russia with Ukraine is a world power, and without it a regional player” has been broken.
“Politiko” states that “European leaders are skinny because of the signs that officials in Biden’s government expect that the allies in the EU will obediently obey the leadership of Washington”, and the situation is similar among the allies in NATO.
Brussels also raises the question of how important Europe really is to Washington, bearing in mind that China is the main world rival and the focus of the American world strategy in the Pacific, because the fact is that Biden has not appointed new ambassadors to the EU four months after coming to power. NATO.
All this, according to Brussels, strengthens the belief of some EU governments, including Paris, that the Union must prove its position on strategic independence at the meetings of the Group of 7 leading countries and the NATO summit in June, which means that Europe has its own strategy. medium and long term when it comes to EU priorities.
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