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January 28, 2015
See, we told you guys things were about to get interesting.
The new far-left government in Greece dropped a bombshell on its first day in office by abjuring an EU statement on Russia.
It said in a press communique on Tuesday (27 January): “the aforementioned statement was released without the prescribed procedure to obtain consent by the member states and particularly without ensuring the consent of Greece”.
“In this context, it is underlined that Greece does not consent to this statement”.
It added that its new PM, Alexis Tsipras, expressed “discontent” in a phone call to EU foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini.
The EU statement on Russia, published on Tuesday morning, claimed all 28 leaders had agreed Russia bears “responsibility” for a rocket attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which killed 30 people.
It also called on foreign ministers to “consider any appropriate action” – further sanctions on Russia.
It was drafted by the cabinet of EU Council chief Donald Tusk, a Russia-critical Pole, on Monday evening.
His people say he phoned Tsipras and that they contacted all the capitals’ “sherpas” – senior officials dealing with EU issues in each leader’s private office.
They also say no one on the Greek side voiced objections until Tuesday morning.
They then suggested adding a footnote to the statement, but “as Greece did not want such a footnote, it was clear to us that we could publish the statement as agreed in the evening”.
For its part, the Greek embassy to the EU is playing down the fiasco as confusion linked to the hand-over of power in Athens.
But one EU diplomat told this website Greece had tried to remove the line blaming Russia for the Mariupol killing.
He said Austria, Hungary, and Slovakia also tried, and failed, to “water down” the communique.
I would argue that two things are happening here. Syriza is posturing itself as a populist movement, that despite its leftism is prepared to back Russia, which basically everyone in Greece feels a connection to, due to the shared religion creating a cultural bond. On top of this, they are attempting to show both the people and the EU itself that they are planning on causing problems.
To be clear, I don’t support this party. They are basically communists. However, they are extreme enough – or, they are supposed to be – that they are going to throw some things at the system which will cause it to react in ways which could well be very positive in the long-run.
You can see how this particular point – support for Russia – just throws the whole thing out of whack. The West’s position on Russia is that it is undeniably evil – they are literally painting Putin as a new Hitler. So having a member state saying “no, actually we think something different” confuses the entire narrative which is “all civilized people see Russia and believe it is the devil.”
