Europe should overcome US pressure, resume cooperation with Russia – Duma chief

Reuters / Francois Lenoir

Reuters / Francois Lenoir

State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin has urged European politicians to stop listening to US propaganda and start working on common Eurasian economic interests with Russia.

Naryshkin expressed his views on the best possible course for
European politics in an article entitled “Natural Allies”,
published on Monday in the Russian government daily Rossiiskaya
Gazeta.

He wrote that the foundations of the European Union or “Big
Europe” had been laid by people who remembered the lessons of the
First and Second World Wars and these people still assert NATO’s
eastward expansion was a mistake. Europe is taking great risks if
it remains in the political wake of a nation located thousands of
miles from the European continent. The Ukrainian crisis is yet
another confirmation of the fact that EU member countries must
decide on their foreign policies without any foreign
interference, he noted.

If this doesn’t happen, Washington will eventually destroy the
EU’s economic sovereignty by skillful manipulation of WTO
mechanisms, Naryshkin wrote.Large-scale, rigid deals the United
States is pushing through, under the guise of liberalization of
trade, are in reality bringing the European economy under US
control, he noted.

The Duma speaker expressed hope that more people in Europe are
beginning to understand that cooperation with the US is leading
the EU into a dead end. “As American propaganda’s scary tales
vanish like smoke more people in Europe will understand that they
had been deceived again
,” he wrote.

He emphasized that the latest crisis in European security was
caused largely by US actions and their disregard for
international law. To overcome this crisis, Europe must return to
the classical model of statehood based on morals, politics and
law, he added.

Naryshkin also pointed out that Russia was much closer to Europe
both geographically and mentally, and suggested that European
partners return to a discourse on common interests, stressing the
question of the southern and southeastern borders of the future
major bloc is still open.

Russia is a natural ally for all European countries. It was
Russia that brought peace to the whole continent in 1945 and it
deserves much more trust than those who thoroughly and for a long
time rewrote history in order to start the fires of confrontation
in our peaceful home
,” the Duma chief wrote.

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In April, Naryshkin backed the idea of a future merger between
the Russian Federation and the European Union, and suggested
immediately starting consultations. The idea of the possibility
of such a merger originally came from Czech President Milos
Zeman, who confessed to having a dream that one day Russia would
join the EU.

Zeman didn’t exclude the possibility of EU nations joining
the Russian Federation. Our country has repeatedly admitted the
possibility of a merger between two regional unions – the
Eurasian Economic Union and European Union
,” Naryshkin
wrote. He added that in his view the plan wasn’t a fantasy
because Russia “has always been and will always remain in the
common family of European people
.”

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