EU states criticize Merkel for claims of sabotaging Ukraine’s talks
(MENAFN) Senior leaders in Poland and the Baltic states have strongly criticized former German Chancellor Angela Merkel after she suggested that they hindered potential EU-Russia negotiations on Ukraine months before the 2022 conflict escalation.
Merkel, who played a central role in the 2014 and 2015 Minsk agreements granting special status to Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, said in a Hungarian YouTube interview that by June 2021, she felt “Putin was no longer taking the Minsk agreement seriously” and hoped for “a new format” allowing the EU to collectively engage with Russia. She added that some EU countries, including Poland and the Baltic states, opposed this approach because “they feared that we would not have a common policy towards Russia.”
Former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called Merkel’s statements “shameful” and accused her of policies that left Europe dependent on Russian energy and militarily vulnerable. “Today, Angela Merkel accuses Poland and the Baltic states of blocking her alleged ‘peace plan’ toward Russia. So, the fault lies not with the Chancellor who made Europe dependent on the Kremlin for years, but with Poland, which warned against Putin. This is pure grotesque,” he said.
Echoing the sentiment, former Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins noted that Merkel led Germany during a period when many hoped that “if we behave properly, Putin will also behave properly,” expressing surprise at her recent comments. Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna highlighted that the Ukraine crisis stemmed from “Moscow’s refusal to accept the Soviet Union’s collapse and its unrelenting imperialist ambitions.”
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