Ipse by Tag - Europe

Viktor Orbán

Inserted 1 year ago

“The Western strategy on Ukraine has been built on four pillars - that Ukraine can win a war against Russia with NATO weapons, that sanctions would weaken Russia and destabilise its leadership, that sanctions would hurt Russia more than Europe, and that the world would line up in support of Europe. This strategy has failed as governments in Europe are collapsing like dominoes, energy prices have surged and a new strategy was needed now. We are sitting in a car that has a puncture in all four tyres: it is absolutely clear that the war cannot be won in this way. Ukraine will never win the war this way quite simply because the Russian army has assymetrical dominance.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Hungary

23 Jul 2022 9 1

Jens Stoltenberg

Inserted 1 year ago

“President Putin's war against Ukraine has shattered peace in Europe and has created the biggest security crisis in Europe since the Second World War. NATO has responded with strength and unity.”

Aljazeera

Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

29 Jun 2022 4 1

Mateusz Morawiecki

Inserted 1 year ago

“This is a great moment for Europe's unity and for the defence of its basic values. The struggle for freedom goes on.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Poland

23 Jun 2022 3 3

Jacob F Kirkegaard

Inserted 1 year ago

“I understand the sentiment of these regions, because when countries in Africa and Asia have had wars, Europe has sometimes played a one-sided game. The EU has certainly underestimated the fact that the sheer outrage felt within the continent about this war and enmity towards Russia isn't shared by the rest of the world.”

Aljazeera

Senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund

23 Jun 2022 5 1

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Inserted 1 year ago

“The world cannot be that Eurocentric that it used to be in the past. If I were to take Europe collectively, which has been singularly silent on many things which were happening, for example in Asia, you could ask why would anybody in Asia trust Europe on anything at all.”

Aljazeera

Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India

23 Jun 2022 3 3

Arturs Krisjanis Karins

Inserted 1 year ago

“We're getting a little bogged down in all of the details and we're forgetting the big picture. It's only money, the Ukrainians are paying with their lives. We can and we must support them, if only out of self interest because only when Russia is defeated can we in Europe feel safe.”

Reuters

Prime Minister of Latvia

30 May 2022 6 5

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 1 year ago

“Western governments guided by short-sighted, inflated political ambitions and by Russophobia, deal a much harder blow to their own national interests, their own economies and the well-being of their own citizens. We see it above all by looking at the sharp rise of inflation in Europe which is close to 20% in some countries. It is obvious that... the continuation of the obsession with sanctions will inevitably lead to the most difficult consequences for the European Union, for its citizens. Russia is confidently managing in the face of external challenges.”

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President of Russia

12 May 2022 5 5

Sergey Lavrov

Inserted 1 year ago

“If you are worried about the prospect of war in Europe - we do not want that at all. But I draw your attention to the fact that it is the West that is constantly and persistently saying that in this situation, it is necessary to defeat Russia. Draw your own conclusions.”

Reuters

Russian Foreign Minister

11 May 2022 3 3

Péter Szijjártó

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Brussels package of sanctions would ban oil shipments from Russia to Europe, with a rather short notice, in case of Hungary the end of next year. Hungary cannot support the measures in their current form. Hungary could only agree to these measures if crude oil imports from Russia via pipeline were exempted from the sanctions.”

Aljazeera

Hungarian Foreign Minister

04 May 2022 6 3

Lauri Myllyvirta

Inserted 2 years ago

“The sky-high fossil fuel prices and continued imports into Europe have provided the Kremlin with a major windfall and undermined the effect of economic sanctions.”

Cbc

Lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air in Helsinki

04 May 2022 4 3

William Pomeranz

Inserted 2 years ago

“Putin wants to try to convince Europe of the consequences - to show that Europe is going to pay for their support of Ukraine. If the economy suffers and people suffer, [it's possible] that European nations - Germany or France or some other nations - would say, 'This isn't worth it'.”

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Deputy director of the Kennan Institute in Washington

02 May 2022 5 3

Pierluigi Paganini

Inserted 2 years ago

“The consequences of an oil embargo would likely cause a recession in Europe. While the US, the EU, the UK, and other countries have sanctioned Russia, Russian export revenues since the beginning of the invasion is not decreasing. Even if European governments agreed to stop Russian coal imports starting in August, it is not enough. The prices for oil would increase on a global scale. Using alternative oil provisions from the Middle East and Africa would take time, which in turn would force European countries to adopt an energy policy characterised by austerity.”

Aljazeera

Cybersecurity and intelligence expert in Italy

27 Apr 2022 8 5

Step Vaessen

Inserted 2 years ago

“The US is clearly trying to give a signal, to Europe mainly but also other countries, to prop up military support for Ukraine. The US is trying to build this broad coalition of more than 40 countries which goes beyond NATO to include countries from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. They have been invited here to build this broad coalition, not only for immediate military support for Ukraine, which the US says is really needed, but for long-term military assistance to give Ukraine the security guarantees the US says it needs in the future. It is also significant that this meeting is [being held] in Germany, because Germany has been criticised for not doing enough. Until a few days ago, it was very reluctant to send heavy weapons to Ukraine, but just on the eve of this meeting the government decided to send tanks after all.”

Aljazeera

26 Apr 2022 9 2

Oleg Ustenko

Inserted 2 years ago

“Imagine how many missiles and bombs you can buy for that kind of money. Some people in Europe still have extremely narrow thinking. They believe they can help us, that they're our great friends and indeed they are. But they do not understand that by supplying this money to Putin, they are funding his military machine. If Russians are committing war crimes, even genocide, whoever is supplying Russia with this bloody money is guilty of the same war crime.”

Theguardian

Economic adviser to the President of Ukraine (Zelenskyy)

23 Apr 2022 4 4

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 2 years ago

“What's astonishing is that the so-called partners from unfriendly countries concede themselves that they won't be able to make do without Russian energy resources, including without natural gas, for example. There is no rational replacement (for gas) in Europe now. Unfriendly countries admit that they cannot do without Russian energy resources.”

Reuters

President of Russia

14 Apr 2022 5 3

Gitanas Nauseda

Inserted 2 years ago

“From this month on - no more Russian gas in Lithuania. Years ago my country made decisions that today allow us with no pain to break energy ties with the agressor. If we can do it, the rest of Europe can do it too!”

Aljazeera

President of Lithuania

02 Apr 2022 4 3

Edward Fishman

Inserted 2 years ago

“The U.S. and Europe I do believe deserve a lot of credit for the solidarity and resolve they've shown on sanctions. The sanctions are clearly impacting Russia's economy dramatically. However, I think that we've stalled out a bit. There's a lot of room for escalation.”

Politico

Former Obama State Department official who played a central role in crafting sanctions after Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea

31 Mar 2022 2 4

Andrew Leslie

Inserted 2 years ago

“To be effective in solving complex problems, interstate dispute, or war; you have diplomacy, you've got economics, you've got humanitarian support, and you have got the military. Canada has been active in diplomacy, by the way diplomacy obviously has failed because otherwise Putin wouldn't have attacked. Economic; the sanctions (are) valuable but they are not stopping the Russian battlegroups from grinding away and essentially killing Ukraine citizens. Humanitarian support is after the fact where you try to remediate the damage and the tragedy. We have done a good job at bringing refugees to Canada. I am told about 10,000 Ukrainians so far, some medical supplies. But on the military side we are lacking. For 5 years Canada did not allow Ukraine to acquire weapons from Canada. That was a conscious government decision because they were asking. And then when the push came to shove 3 days before the attack we send a couple boxes of weapons and then some old anti tank systems and then some other stuff and then now we've stopped again. As well we only have 600 troops in Europe right now and we are talking of a need of multiple thousands. So to demonstrate leadership we've got to do more. Not just in the first three areas I mentioned but also in the military side because if we don't deter Putin he may try something else.”

Cbc

Retired Canadian lieutenant-general

24 Mar 2022 11 4

James Bays

Inserted 2 years ago

“The first meeting here is NATO looking at the military part of this. Looking at support for Ukraine, but also looking at beefing up NATO's forces for those countries close to Russia. Certainly, there's been a 10-fold increase in land forces from the situation that was there before and 100,000 US troops have been sent to Europe. So that's a very, very big boost. At the European Union summit, I think more of the focus will be on sanctions, as will the meeting with the G7 leaders. The Japanese prime minister, not a member of NATO, and the other members of G7 will be flying in for that meeting.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor reporting from Brussels

24 Mar 2022 6 1

Jake Sullivan

Inserted 2 years ago

“What we would like to hear is that the resolve and unity that we've seen for the past month will endure for as long as it takes.”

Aljazeera

US National Security Adviser

23 Mar 2022 4 1

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“President Putin's war against Ukraine has shattered peace in Europe and has created the biggest security crisis in Europe since the Second World War. NATO has responded with strength and unity.”

“This is a great moment for Europe's unity and for the defence of its basic values. The struggle for freedom goes on.”

“The world cannot be that Eurocentric that it used to be in the past. If I were to take Europe collectively, which has been singularly silent on many things which were happening, for example in Asia, you could ask why would anybody in Asia trust Europe on anything at all.”

“We're getting a little bogged down in all of the details and we're forgetting the big picture. It's only money, the Ukrainians are paying with their lives. We can and we must support them, if only out of self interest because only when Russia is defeated can we in Europe feel safe.”

“If you are worried about the prospect of war in Europe - we do not want that at all. But I draw your attention to the fact that it is the West that is constantly and persistently saying that in this situation, it is necessary to defeat Russia. Draw your own conclusions.”

“The sky-high fossil fuel prices and continued imports into Europe have provided the Kremlin with a major windfall and undermined the effect of economic sanctions.”

“Putin wants to try to convince Europe of the consequences - to show that Europe is going to pay for their support of Ukraine. If the economy suffers and people suffer, [it's possible] that European nations - Germany or France or some other nations - would say, 'This isn't worth it'.”

“From this month on - no more Russian gas in Lithuania. Years ago my country made decisions that today allow us with no pain to break energy ties with the agressor. If we can do it, the rest of Europe can do it too!”

“The U.S. and Europe I do believe deserve a lot of credit for the solidarity and resolve they've shown on sanctions. The sanctions are clearly impacting Russia's economy dramatically. However, I think that we've stalled out a bit. There's a lot of room for escalation.”

“What we would like to hear is that the resolve and unity that we've seen for the past month will endure for as long as it takes.”

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