Normalization of the relations of the European Union with Vladimir Putin is impossible, said the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Lyain, even after the end of hostilities in Ukraine. The words von der Layen gives RBC.
von der Layen also emphasized that six packages of sanctions introduced by the European Union are seriously undermining the Russian economy.
Russia’s relations with the EU and many Western states worsened after the start of the war in Ukraine. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of Great Britain, has repeatedly spoke about the impossibility of normalizing Putin after the war in Ukraine. France President Emmanuel Macron called Dialogue with Putin his duty. In early June, he stated that he held in negotiations with the Russian colleague a “hundred hours”, and emphasized the role of Paris as an intermediary in resolving a war in Ukraine.