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Meanwhile, Kallas suggested that EU leaders would sign off this week on the bloc\u2019s 19th package of sanctions, designed to hit foreign banks and cryptocurrencies that Russia uses to evade sanctions.<\/p>\n

Slovakia\u2019s leader Robert Fico had been holding up the sanctions to protest efforts to shut off the flow of Russian gas, which his country still relies on for energy. Diplomats involved in the negotiations said a deal is now close to secure Fico\u2019s support.<\/p>\n

Land grab fears<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The more fundamental anxiety among EU governments is that Trump might be swayed by Putin to pressure Kyiv into giving up land in eastern Ukraine. Trump suggested the war should be frozen on its current territorial lines, with what he said was \u201c78 percent\u201d of the Donbas region in Russian hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou leave it the way it is right now, they can negotiate something later on down the line,\u201d Trump said<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"The EU\u2019s Kaja Kallas rejected the idea of any peace deal that forced Ukraine to give up Russian-occupied land. | Olivier Hoslet\/EPA<\/p>\n

But the diplomat quoted earlier warned that if Putin wins land, the EU\u2019s Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, among others, will \u201cfreak out\u201d and worry that Russia will come for them next. The result would be \u201ca massive rearmament\u201d in many European countries that would upend their internal politics, the diplomat said.<\/p>\n

The EU\u2019s Kallas rejected the idea<\/a> of any peace deal that forced Ukraine to give up Russian-occupied land.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody says territorial integrity is an important value that we stand for,\u201d Kallas said. \u201cWe have to keep to that, because if we just give away the territories then, this gives a message to everybody that you can just use force against your neighbors and get what you want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Esther Webber, Koen Verhelst, Gregorio Sorgi, Gabriel Gavin, Clea Caulcutt, Jamie Dettmer and Jacopo Barigazzi contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Kallas suggested that EU leaders would sign off this week on the bloc\u2019s 19th package of sanctions,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":320626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[128090,259,160591,111,23241,69,5755,77059,5495,56350,160592,170,120,17723,56353,14611,8302,121,374,2852,50,125,50757,257,126,50759,273,376,67,16815,274,3656,131,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-320625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-baltics","9":"tag-banks","10":"tag-bart-de-wever","11":"tag-belgium","12":"tag-currencies","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-drones","15":"tag-economic-sanctions","16":"tag-energy","17":"tag-estonia","18":"tag-gregorio-sorgi","19":"tag-japan","20":"tag-kaja-kallas","21":"tag-keir-starmer","22":"tag-latvia","23":"tag-lithuania","24":"tag-lobbying","25":"tag-luxembourg","26":"tag-missiles","27":"tag-negotiations","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-rights","30":"tag-robert-fico","31":"tag-russia","32":"tag-sanctions","33":"tag-slovakia","34":"tag-ukraine","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-united-states","37":"tag-viktor-orban","38":"tag-vladimir-putin","39":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","40":"tag-war","41":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115411020234093378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}