{"id":304414,"date":"2025-12-23T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/is-europe-chickening-out-when-it-comes-to-russia-berlin-briefing-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:23","slug":"is-europe-chickening-out-when-it-comes-to-russia-berlin-briefing-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/is-europe-chickening-out-when-it-comes-to-russia-berlin-briefing-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Europe &#8220;chickening out&#8221; when it comes to Russia? | Berlin Briefing Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/AZNtcB9fV-I\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Is Europe &quot;chickening out&quot; when it comes to Russia? | Berlin Briefing Podcast\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AZNtcB9fV-I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The Russians who are welcoming what just came out of the EU summit, because it shied away from directly tapping into this Russian money, they can rightly claim for themselves saying: \u201cLook when it gets serious, the Europeans are to some degree chickening out.\u201d\u00a0And this also means\u00a0that the United States will not be able to\u00a0benefit\u00a0from this money itself.\u00a0So,\u00a0the interest in having the Europeans at the table could\u00a0somewhat wane\u00a0on the American side, and that would be a catastrophe geopolitically for the Europeans.\u00a0So,\u00a0my argument would be, yes, the Europeans found a very European solution and compromise, but they\u00a0failed to\u00a0live up to this moment.\u00a0And that&#8217;s exactly what Friedrich Merz\u00a0had demanded.\u00a0And this is his style, not saying: \u201cOK,\u00a0let&#8217;s\u00a0see\u00a0what&#8217;s\u00a0doable,\u201d\u00a0but saying: \u201cThis is where we need to get\u00a0to.\u201d\u00a0And\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0what he did and now he suffers\u00a0to some degree in\u00a0terms of credibility because he\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0manage to get his European partners, particularly Belgium, but also several others, the Italians notably as well, to sign off on\u00a0actually getting\u00a0serious in tapping into that Russian money.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>#Germany #Russia #GermanPolitics<br \/>\nFor more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians who are welcoming what just came out of the EU summit, because it shied away from directly tapping into this Russian money, they can rightly claim for themselves saying: \u201cLook when it gets serious, the Europeans are to some degree chickening out.\u201d\u00a0And this also means\u00a0that the United States will not be able to\u00a0benefit\u00a0from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[129252,137141,129379],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-304414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-russians","tag-welcoming","tag-what"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Europe &quot;chickening out&quot; when it comes to Russia? | Berlin Briefing Podcast | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Is Europe &quot;chickening out&quot; when it comes to Russia? | Berlin Briefing Podcast for free, here on News ISC. 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