The European Union is preparing a “B.” Plan B. Trump must move away from the Ukraine talks

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The European Union is preparing the “Plan B” on how to maintain economic sanctions against Russia if the Trump administration abandons peace talks in Ukraine and seeks to close with Moscow, according to the best diplomat of the bloc.

US President Donald Trump has pledged to bring a quick end to the Russia war, which lasted for more than three years against Ukraine, but failed to compel the peace agreement during the first 100 days in his post, such as Moscow and Kiev. Both reject the elements of their administration proposals.

“It is a question about whether the Americans will want to leave,” Kaja Callas, the high representative of the European Union of Foreign and Security Policy, told the Financial Times. “We see signs of this They are thinking Whether they should leave Ukraine and not try to get a deal with the Russians because it is difficult. “

“If there is no progress, we will decline as mediators in this process,” said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Marco Rubio on Tuesday.

Trump’s suggestions for economic rapprochement with Moscow as part of the peace agreement Nutritional fears Some European Union countries will also demand Brussels to move to lift the European Union sanctions against Russia in the coming months.

European officials are also concerned about the consequences of allowing the United States, which may allow its companies to restart economic cooperation with Russia, while the European Union’s business is still being prevented from doing so.

Class said that there was a “b” plan “to maintain economic pressure on Russia, in the event that Hungary grants the deportation of economic sanctions in the European Union in July, but stressed that Brussels is still focusing on keeping all member states to align.

“There is also a plan B but we have to work in plan A; “Otherwise, she focuses on the PC and then this will happen,” she said, adding that the talks were continuing with Washington and other international partners to ensure that the Western sanctions system kept its place.

FT previously reported that one of the options is for national governments to adopt the sanctions individually to circumvent the Hungarian veto, like Belgium issues a royal decree to maintain 190 billion euros The assets of the frozen Russian state on the Belgian lands.

“Belgium will not do anything at the national level,” a senior Belgian official told FT.

But Class admitted that there are discussions in some European Union capitals on whether the Trump administration should be followed if he abandoned Ukraine and re -set relations with Russia.

“It is clear that these types of discussions take place in some member states, and we may hope that we will not really have to support (Ukraine) anymore,” said Class, the former Prime Minister in Estoni. “But it is also a wrong hope, because if you look at Russia, which invests more than 9 percent of GDP on the army, they will want to use it again.”

As part of peace proposals, the United States offered the lifting of sanctions against Moscow-imposed in conjunction with the European Union-and to restart economic cooperation with Russia in sectors including energy. Hungary threatened to arrest the voting necessary at the end of July to extend the European Union sanctions system.

Class said that Europe can intervene financially to help Ukraine in the event of American withdrawal, but it admitted that “in terms of military support, of course, it is difficult to fill the gap if the Americans leave.”

She said that Brussels and other European capitals focused on “still working with the Americans and trying to persuade them why the result of this war is in their interest, and that Russia does not get everything it wants.”

But Class said that no country from the European Union will accept recognition of the Crimea as Russia, and it is an element in the American proposal, which is a major red line for Kiev.

“I cannot see that we accept this kind of things. But we cannot talk about America, of course, and what they will do,” she said. “On the European side, we said this again and again … Crime is Ukraine.”

“There are tools in the hands of Americans who can use them to put pressure on Russia to really stop this war,” Class added. “President Trump said he wants to stop killing. He must pressure the person who is killing.”