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Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihen fest geschlossen!
SA marschiert mit ruhig (mutig) festem Schritt. 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
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90 000 000 000€ for Ukraine approved - Taxpayers are happy 🤓
It could be ~4000 houses, ~150 modern hospitals or ~2500 km of roads. But the choice is escalation with Russia.
@ThorstenPolleit The EU is destroying its industry by refusing Russian energy but progress is amazing!! let’s pay triple, ship it across oceans, and call it strategic independence.
@James7Holland Another misguided attempt. This will only end up harming EU citizens, European industry will decline significantly within a few years if cheap Russian energy continues to be rejected. In that scenario, Europe may have little choice but to turn to Chinese alternatives anyway.
It is mind-boggling how wholeheartedly EU adopted a foreign policy that serves US interests so well, but that clearly threatens security and livelihoods of Europeans.
EU cut itself off from the largest energy exporter to its East, and now targets China trade.
Suicidal. 🤦🏻♂️
@fbermingham Another misguided attempt. This will only end up harming EU citizens, European industry will decline significantly within a few years if cheap Russian energy continues to be rejected. In that scenario, Europe may have little choice but to turn to Chinese alternatives anyway.
Exclusive: China’s Russia ties mean EU trade deal is off the table, Finland says
Finnish foreign minister Elina Valtonen tells me in Helsinki that China's support for Russia is a "disqualifying factor" in its efforts to broach an FTA with the EU
scmp.com/news/china/dip…
@ChroniclesKiev Another misguided attempt. This will only end up harming EU citizens, European industry will decline significantly within a few years if cheap Russian energy continues to be rejected. In that scenario, Europe may have little choice but to turn to Chinese alternatives anyway.
La Cina vuole concludere un accordo commerciale con l'UE.
La Finlandia ha appena reso questo impossibile, a meno che la Cina non rinunci alla Russia.
Fratelli finlandesi.
@SariArhoHavren@elinavaltonen Another misguided attempt. This will only end up harming EU citizens, European industry will decline significantly within a few years if cheap Russian energy continues to be rejected. In that scenario, Europe may have little choice but to turn to Chinese alternatives anyway.
Finnish Foreign Minister @elinavaltonen: China’s close ties with Russia should be a “disqualifying factor” in Beijing’s bid to launch talks on a free-trade agreement with the European Union.
“China is truly benefiting from the war. Russia is a junior partner to China these days – Russia has vast natural resources, not much else, but that is [good] if you get it at a discount.”
“There are quite differing China policies throughout the member states, and fair enough, we are democracies, and it is for each and every country and their people to decide,” she said, adding that “Europe would be stronger on this question if it were united”.
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@SariArhoHavren@fbermingham Another misguided attempt. This will only end up harming EU citizens, European industry will decline significantly within a few years if cheap Russian energy continues to be rejected. In that scenario, Europe may have little choice but to turn to Chinese alternatives anyway.
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China’s Russia ties mean EU trade deal is off the table, Finland says
scmp.com/news/china/dip…
@AlternatNews Another misguided attempt. This will only end up harming EU citizens, European industry will decline significantly within a few years if cheap Russian energy continues to be rejected. In that scenario, Europe may have little choice but to turn to Chinese alternatives anyway.
China wants a trade deal with the EU. Finland just made that impossible — unless China drops Russia.
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Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen was direct: China's ties with Moscow are a deal-breaker for any EU-China free trade agreement.
This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard from the WW2 NAZI supporter Finland. This is not the way to get Karelia back from Russia.
For China, Russia is a vital lifeline. They get oil and gas, reliably, which they need to withstand and break a blockade by the US Navy.
The EU is a backwater, which China has already overtaken.
This Finnish uncontrolled outburst sacrifices the Finnish economy for Ukraine, needlessly. A long established pattern with European sanctions.
@Its_ereko Another misguided attempt. This will only end up harming EU citizens, European industry will decline significantly within a few years if cheap Russian energy continues to be rejected. In that scenario, Europe may have little choice but to turn to Chinese alternatives anyway.
🇫🇮🇨🇳🚨 BREAKING: FINLAND JUST BLOCKED CHINA.
Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen says China's ties with Russia are a "disqualifying factor" for any EU-China trade deal. No FTA talks. No negotiations. Not unless China drops Russia.
Finland has veto power. All 27 EU members must agree. Finland just used its vote to shut the door.
China wants a deal. The EU is divided. Finland is drawing a line in the sand.
This is not just about trade. This is about the new Cold War. Finland is choosing sides. Clearly.
The question is whether the rest of Europe follows or fractures.
@MeanwhileInUA Another misguided attempt. This will only end up harming EU citizens, European industry will decline significantly within a few years if cheap Russian energy continues to be rejected. In that scenario, Europe may have little choice but to turn to Chinese alternatives anyway.
China wants a trade deal with the EU. Finland just made that impossible — unless China drops Russia.
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Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen was direct: China's ties with Moscow are a deal-breaker for any EU-China free trade agreement. No negotiations can begin without all 27 EU member states on board. Finland is one of them.
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Beijing has been pitching trade and investment deals to European leaders for months. Last month Germany's chancellor called such an agreement potentially achievable. Valtonen just cooled that down significantly.
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China now has to choose: one of the world's largest markets, or continued partnership with a sanctioned, isolated aggressor.
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That's a real economic squeeze — and it came from Helsinki, not Washington.
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@P_Kallioniemi Another misguided attempt. This will only end up harming EU citizens, European industry will decline significantly within a few years if cheap Russian energy continues to be rejected. In that scenario, Europe may have little choice but to turn to Chinese alternatives anyway.
Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen says China’s close ties to Russia rule out any EU–China trade deal.
According to her, Beijing can’t back a war in Europe and expect business as usual.
This is the way.
Ukrainians are exhausted. We’re tired of being called “unbreakable” - we are human. We want peace, to return to our families, to sleep without explosions.
Yesterday my 7-year-old son said he’s afraid to go to bed because of shelling. What am I supposed to tell him?
Enough resolutions, enough statements. Act. Europe must lead. Help us end this war.
💥⚡️To everyone!
No matter how many people write that Orbán has failed and that I should stop posting, I WILL NOT. I will never give up the fight for a normal peaceful world, I will never deny my faith and my country. Even from the shadow of death, I will post for my country!
@NeilMcCoyWard Kazakh Energy Minister presumes it is because of recent strikes by Ukraine on Russian oil infrastructure and expects transit to resume ASAP. It is Zelensky who does not consider Eu energy crisis, as seen with the southern Druzhba pipeline to influence Hungarian elections.
Russia just gave Germany less than 2 weeks notice.
Germany stopped buying Russian oil in 2022 and replaced it with Kazakh oil. The oil still travels through a Russian pipeline so Russia still decides if it moves.
On May 1 it will not.
The refinery receiving that oil supplies 90% of the petrol, kerosene and heating fuel for Berlin, its airport and the surrounding region. A full halt cuts 17% of what it processes overnight. The last time this refinery lost its main supply it dropped to 50-60% capacity and Berlin faced fuel shortages within weeks.
The only alternative route is through Poland's port of Gdansk. Poland is already using that capacity for its own refinery.
With the Hormuz closed there is no surplus supply sitting anywhere in Europe ready to fill a gap this size.
Germany spent four years saying it had ended its dependence on Russian energy. The oil it replaced it with has travelled through a Russian pipeline every day since 2022. Russia has just shown who really owns that oil.
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The European Union has agreed its 20th package of sanctions against Russia. But the full ban on maritime services has been left on hold pending an agreement at the G7 level.
euronews.com/my-europe/2026…
@Osint613 This 20th package also activates the 'anti-circumvention' tool for the first time. It’s a clear message: if you help Russia move money, you’re next on the list. No more neutral ground.
Promised, delivered, implemented.
The EU’s strategy to achieve a just and lasting peace in Ukraine rests on two pillars: strengthening Ukraine; increasing pressure on Russia. Today we moved forward on both:
▪️ Unlocking the €90 billion loan to Ukraine, securing financial and military support for 2026–2027.
▪️ Adopting the 20th package of sanctions against Russia, reducing its ability to wage war.
Europe stands firm, united and unwavering in its support to Ukraine.