{"id":2196,"date":"2025-11-18T15:25:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:25:42","slug":"principles-to-guide-the-european-unions-diplomatic-action-at-a-decisive-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/principles-to-guide-the-european-unions-diplomatic-action-at-a-decisive-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Principles to Guide the European Union\u2019s Diplomatic Action at a Decisive Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At the BRICS\u2013Europe Conference in Sochi on 14\u201316 November, I proposed a set of principles that can usefully inform the European Union\u2019s diplomatic approach at this critical juncture:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reopen EU\u2013Russia dialogue without contradicting U.S. interests.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Involve the OSCE to negotiate confidence-building measures and limit conventional arms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Acknowledge and address radical nationalism in Ukraine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Protect all minorities across the conflict zone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Safeguard religious freedom and sacred sites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Take a pragmatic, not dogmatic, approach to territorial integrity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avoid integrating Ukraine into EU military programmes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prioritise humanitarian aid, economic support, and post-war reconstruction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the BRICS\u2013Europe Conference in Sochi on 14\u201316 November, I proposed a set of principles that can usefully inform the European Union\u2019s diplomatic approach at this critical juncture:<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}