{"id":2390,"date":"2026-04-10T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:47:22","slug":"against-our-own-interests-europes-russia-policy-in-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/against-our-own-interests-europes-russia-policy-in-question\/","title":{"rendered":"AGAINST OUR OWN INTERESTS? EUROPE\u2019S RUSSIA POLICY IN QUESTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently took part as a speaker in a panel discussion on <em>\u201cRussia and the world after transformation \u2013 New strategies\u201d<\/em> at the Moscow Economic Forum 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my intervention, I shared my perspective as a Member of the European Parliament from a small Member State, raising a fundamental question: does the European Union actually have a strategy in its relations with Russia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also spoke about my efforts to restore dialogue with the Russian Duma, and why I believe that continuing confrontation, militarisation, and the current sanctions policy risk going against Europe\u2019s own interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch my full intervention here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"RESTORING DIALOGUE WITH RUSSIA: A STRATEGIC NECESSITY\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Vuk1glyHjk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently took part as a speaker in a panel discussion on \u201cRussia and the world after transformation \u2013 New strategies\u201d at the Moscow Economic Forum 2026. In my intervention, I shared my perspective as a Member of the European Parliament from a small Member State, raising a fundamental question: does the European Union actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-debat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fkartheiser.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}