{"id":8532,"date":"2026-03-26T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8532\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:54:09","slug":"meps-urge-brussels-to-act-over-russias-venice-biennale-return-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8532\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs urge Brussels to act over Russia\u2019s Venice Biennale return \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The intervention raises the stakes in a dispute that has been building since the Biennale Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-return-venice-biennale-after-four-year-absence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> earlier this month that Russia would return for the first time since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The decision has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-fund-venice-biennale-art-festival-russia-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drawn<\/a> condemnation from more than 20 European governments and prompted warnings from the European Commission that it could review \u2014 and potentially withdraw \u2014 funding for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Now, MEPs are pushing for concrete measures.<\/p>\n<p>They argue that EU funds \u2014 amounting to roughly \u20ac2 million over three years \u2014 should not \u201cdirectly or indirectly\u201d support a platform that could rehabilitate Russia\u2019s international standing.<\/p>\n<p>They also call for a sanctions compliance review of those involved in organizing the Russian pavilion, citing alleged links between its commissioner and Rostec, a Russian state-owned defense conglomerate, and urge targeted restrictive measures against anyone connected to the Kremlin or its war effort.<\/p>\n<p>The Biennale has defended its decision by arguing that art should remain a space of dialogue, free from political exclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The intervention raises the stakes in a dispute that has been building since the Biennale Foundation confirmed earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,2678,898,5288,347,176,349,2915,1937,946,390,941,88,300,396,943],"class_list":["post-8532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-brussels","tag-buildings","tag-culture","tag-eu-funding","tag-foreign-policy","tag-italy","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-kremlin","tag-meps","tag-rule-of-law","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-ukraine","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116295582555655558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}