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        "msgid": "unable-to-withstand-separation-from-russia-eu-seeks-dialogue-with-the-kremlin-1778219582",
        "date": "2026-05-08 11:46:24",
        "title": "Unable to Withstand Separation from Russia, EU Seeks Dialogue with the Kremlin",
        "author": "Erdy Nasrul",
        "source": "REPUBLIKA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "After over three years of diplomatic isolation towards Moscow, the European Union is showing clear signs of cracking, with European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa openly discussing negotiations with Russia alongside the 27 member state leaders. This shift comes amid mounting pressures including the stalled Ukraine war, energy crises exacerbated by Middle Eastern turmoil, and eroding internal EU solidarity. Voices from Finland, Estonia, and Albania underscore the need for renewed diplomatic channels, warning that prolonged isolation diminishes Europe's influence.",
        "content": "<p>After more than three years of maintaining a wall of diplomatic\nisolation towards Moscow, the European Union is now sending the clearest\nsignal yet that this wall is beginning to crack. European Council\nPresident Ant\u00f3nio Costa has openly revealed that he is discussing the\npossibility of negotiations with Russia together with all 27 member\nstate leaders, a step that would have been almost unimaginable just a\nfew years ago. \u201cI am talking with the leaders of the 27 European Union\ncountries to determine the best way to organise our work and to identify\nwhat we actually need to discuss with Russia when the time is right,\u201d\nCosta said, as quoted by the Financial Times and RIA Novosti on Thursday\n(7\/5\/2026). That statement did not emerge in a vacuum. It arrives amid\nlayered pressures that are increasingly difficult for Europe to bear:\nthe deadlock in the Ukraine war that shows no sign of resolution, an\nenergy crisis worsened by turmoil in the Middle East, and the gradual\nerosion of internal EU solidarity itself. Signals from Various\nDirections The change in tone in Brussels is not coming from a single\nvoice alone. Previously, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, whose\ncountry shares a direct border with Russia, stated in March that Europe\nis approaching the point where it needs to \u201copen political dialogue\nchannels with Russia.\u201d Stubb added that relations would be restored\nafter the conflict ends, but they would never return to what they were\nbefore. From Tallinn, Estonian President Alar Karis, whose country is\nknown as one of the most vocal supporters of Ukraine, posed a surprising\nquestion: \u201cAre we ready if the war ends today or tomorrow?\u201d Karis even\npushed for the appointment of a special envoy to begin reopening\ndiplomatic channels with Moscow, emphasising that diplomatic\npreparations should have started long before the war ends. A louder\nvoice came from Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who called Europe\u2019s\ndecision to cut off communication with Russia a \u201cmajor strategic\nmistake.\u201d At an economic forum in Delphi, Greece, Rama reminded that\nEurope\u2019s influence would continue to shrink the longer the diplomatic\nisolation is maintained. \u201cEurope must always, always talk to all\nparties,\u201d he stressed. \u201cThe longer we delay, the less influence we have.\nRussia is not going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>",
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