{"id":421112,"date":"2025-03-12T15:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/03\/12\/parlamento-europeo-sostegno-ucraina\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T17:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:09:18","slug":"eu-parliament-reaffirms-support-for-kyiv-and-criticises-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/12\/eu-parliament-reaffirms-support-for-kyiv-and-criticises-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament reaffirms support for Kyiv (and criticises Washington)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The European Parliament confirms its support for aggressed\u00a0Ukraine<\/strong>. In the aftermath of the agreement reached between Kyiv and Washington on the terms of a potential cease-fire<\/strong>, from Strasbourg comes yet another firm stance by MEPs,\u00a0which, net of the (predictable) defection<\/strong> of the Italians, repeat the need to achieve a “just and lasting peace<\/strong>” to the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n

The non-binding resolution<\/a> approved today (March 12) by the EU Parliament plenary in Strasbourg, reiterates that the EU must continue to stand by the former Soviet republic<\/strong>, which has been engaged for three years in resisting the Russian invasion. Brussels is called upon to provide Ukraine with solid security guarantees<\/strong> and, together with member states, must “significantly increase necessary assistance<\/strong>” to Kyiv.<\/p>\n

The deputies stress that the Ukrainian leadership should not be pushed into accepting a “surrender” and that the Twenty-Seven must take part in defining the new continental security architecture<\/strong>, while supporting the creation of a “coalition of the willing<\/strong>” under the Franco-British umbrella to send an interposition force to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

And\u00a0did not spare any barbs for Donald Trump’s White House<\/strong>, criticising Washington for its overly lenient approach to Moscow\u2014against which MPs are demanding\u00a0stricter sanctions as well as the confiscation of frozen assets<\/strong> to repay Ukrainian reconstruction\u2014and for “pressure” on European and Ukrainian allies.\u00a0Finally, the chamber asked for Kyiv’s accession process <\/strong>to the twelve-star club to be accelerated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The co-chair of the ECR group, Nicola Procaccini (photo: Philippe Stirnweiss\/European Parliament)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Melonian Nicola Procaccini<\/strong>, co-chair of the Conservatives (ECR), had tried to delay the vote<\/strong> arguing that a strong stance by the chamber\u00a0would risk undermining the delicate ongoing discussion between the United States and Russia on the conditions of the ceasefire<\/strong> that were agreed yesterday<\/a> in Jeddah\u2014on which the Kremlin has yet to officially comment\u2014casting a negative light on the efforts of the star-studded administration.<\/p>\n

But the parliament\u00a0rejected his request, and thus the joint resolution submitted by EPP, S&D, ECR, Renew and Greens (which followed a debate last February) passed with 442 votes in favor, 98 against and 126 abstentions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Among the Italians, the fractures were mainly in the PD<\/strong> (Nicola Zingaretti<\/strong>‘s head of delegation voted in dissent, Cecilia Strada<\/strong> and Marco Tarquinio<\/strong> abstained, and the remaining 18 supported the text), while FI gave a convincing “yes” vote<\/strong>, FdI abstained<\/strong> (apart from Sergio Berlato<\/strong>, who voted against) and, finally, Lega, M5s, and AVS compactly voted against<\/strong> the resolution (of the four Greens, only Ignazio Marino<\/strong> voted in favour, whereas for Sinistra italiana only Mimmo Lucano<\/strong> voted “no”).<\/p>\n

An update to the text to include a reference to yesterday’s talks was, however, approved by MPs, with an oral amendment (tabled by popular German Michael Gahler<\/strong>) stating that the Parliament “welcomes the joint statement by Ukraine and the United States<\/strong> following their meeting” in Saudi Arabia and “recalls that a ceasefire can be an effective instrument of cessation of hostilities only if the aggressor fully adheres to it<\/strong>,” therefore hoping “that Russia will accept and follow it by ceasing all attacks on Ukrainian civilians, infrastructure, and territory.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a non-binding resolution, MEPs reiterated their closeness to the former Soviet republic, which has been resisting Moscow’s aggression for more than three years. Italian delegations replicate domestic political dynamics in Strasbourg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":421105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[25907,25802,25755,26755],"class_list":["post-421112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-nicola-procaccini-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421137,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421112\/revisions\/421137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}