28 minutes agoA visit to Moscow by Borrell étrazon EU, Eurodeputs ask Ursula von der Leeyen for his dismissal
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(5 years ago)European Union High Representative Josep Borrell's visit to Russia is over. Before leaving Moscow, the head of European diplomacy paid tribute to Boris Nemtsov, an opposition leader figure killed six years ago in the heart of the city. This was announced in a press release from the European Service [...]
European Union High Representative Josep Borrell's visit to Russia is over.
Before leaving Moscow, the head of European diplomacy paid tribute to Boris Nemtsov, an opposition leader figure killed six years ago in the heart of the city.
This was announced in a press release from the European Foreign Action Service.
But it was not enough to calm the controversy that arose after the meeting between him and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a meeting in which Borrell appeared too soft on the issue of punishing rival Alexey Navajo and respecting human rights by the Russian government.
He is accused of failing to react during the joint press conference with Lavrov to the attacks launched by Russian Minister for the EU and the United States of America.
Following this Eurodeput meeting, Estonian Riho Terras, from the EPP group has been addressed with a letter to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leenen, in which she wants Borrell's resignation.
In the letter, in which Terras is expressed in the plural, suggesting that there are other signatories, the eurodeputet says it is a superfluous “concerned by the humiliating” developments of Borrell's visit to Moscow, which “seriously damaged the reputation of the European Union”.
The letter claims the visit was undertaken by Borrell “with his initiative” and in which he showed “ference to crimes committed by Putin's regime against political opponents”.
Stressing Borrell's “EU, Terras and other potential signatories ask Von der Leenen to “make” if Borrell “does not resign by his will”.
“A European diplomacy disaster”, a “bringing” from Russia, which shows Moscow “does not take Brussels seriously as a world player”.
Nona Mikhelidze, expert at the Institute of International Affairs, says Borrell wanted to go to Moscow on the basis of the <x0->Servelative selection” strategy, launched at the time of Federica Moghrini, under which, regardless of the distance, “There are areas where we can co-operate”.
