The Kremlin affirmed that today the prospects for the normalization of Russia’s relations with the European Union (EU), commenting on the appointment of the Estonian Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, as High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. “Ms. Kallas (…) has not yet demonstrated diplomatic inclinations and is well known among us for her absolutely intransigent and sometimes even rabidly Russophobic statements,” said the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, in his daily press conference. .
Kallas will replace the Spaniard in the second half of the year Josep Borrellwith which Moscow has had many disagreements since his arrival to the post of head of community diplomacy since December 2019. For this reason, he added, “we do not believe that European diplomacy will act in any way in terms of normalizing relations” with Russia.
“The Prospects for relations between Moscow and Brussels are poor“, Peskov summed up. The Kremlin spokesman also commented on the appointment of Ursula von der Leyen to head the European Commission for a second five-year term. “Mrs von der Leyen is not in favour of normalising relations between the EU and Russia, that is how we know her, that is how we remember her. In this respect, nothing changes,” she said.
Likewise, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, did not set the alarm to follow the electoral debate live between the president of the United States, Joe Biden, and the Republican candidate Donald Trump, according to the Kremlin. “I don’t think you expect the president of Russia to set the alarm to continue the debate in the US,” Peskov said during his daily telephone press conference. Peskov stressed that this debate is not “an event that takes over the agenda of the day” in Russia, where “there are many issues that are really important for our country.”
«We have no intention of issuing an assessment on these debates. It is an internal matter of the United States“It’s the US election campaign,” she said, although she assured that the Kremlin would be duly informed about the statements made by both. She insisted that Russia “never interfered in an election campaign in the United States,” which it was accused of in relation to the 2016 elections won by Trump.
