{"id":125425,"date":"2025-05-23T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125425\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:02:09","slug":"rogue-eu-lawmaker-kartheiser-to-meet-kremlin-officials-in-moscow-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125425\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue EU lawmaker Kartheiser to meet Kremlin officials in Moscow \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECR has condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, and a majority of its members have been staunch supporters of sending military aid to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>ECR\u2019s leadership has been debating for months whether to kick Kartheiser out of the group over his pro-Russian stance.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he goes, I will submit a motion to have him removed from the group,\u201d the co-chair of the ECR group, Patryk Jaki, told POLITICO. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cECR, and especially PiS [Poland\u2019s Law and Justice party], is the largest party in Europe that has consistently opposed the policy of \u2018resets with Moscow\u2019 for decades. This was the case with the Nord Stream projects and when all of Europe was engaging in \u2018resets with Russia\u2019 before the invasion of Ukraine,\u201d said Jaki, who is affiliated with Law and Justice.<\/p>\n<p>European Parliament spokesperson Delphine Colard said that members traveling to Moscow \u201cdo so in a personal capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In early May, coinciding with Putin\u2019s \u201cVictory Day\u201d celebrations, Cypriot non-attached MEP Fidias Panayiotou <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/cyprus-mep-fidias-panayiotou-travels-to-moscow-with-german-and-slovak-lawmakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited Moscow<\/a> with other EU lawmakers from Germany\u2019s Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), Slovakia\u2019s SMER and Czechia.<\/p>\n<p>That caused a backlash from the Parliament president and the leaders of the main political groups, with the liberal Renew Europe president calling for an investigation into whether the lawmakers had used Parliament funds for the visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ECR has condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, and a majority of its members have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[17777,6215,2000,299,5187,2816,1824,4582,1215,2452,11665,2597,5111,48,31621,332,55565,2558,182,657,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-125425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-bridges","9":"tag-cooperation","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-politics","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-human-rights","16":"tag-luxembourg","17":"tag-media","18":"tag-meps","19":"tag-military","20":"tag-parliament","21":"tag-rights","22":"tag-roberta-metsola","23":"tag-russia","24":"tag-sahra-wagenknecht","25":"tag-slovakia","26":"tag-social-media","27":"tag-ukraine","28":"tag-vladimir-putin","29":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","30":"tag-war","31":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114557520759701736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}