EU Summit in Brussels. Archive photoSt. PETERSBURG, June 15 Russia, together with its new Asian partners, will be ready to «give a hand» to the European Union, but in the event that it changes its ideology, in which the EU seeks to subjugate other countries, said Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin. «Look carefully at this development map. The partnership will not be created out of spite. Of course, it will be on a voluntary basis, based on interests, cluster interests, a mixture of economic and infrastructural, social, educational. But this is a great revival of Asia. We extend our hand to the European Union if it changes its, let's say, ideology,» Pankin said during a speech at a round table at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Chizhov appreciated the opportunity to return relations with the EU to business as usualHe stressed that in Russia after the collapse of the USSR the word «ideology» «did not sound for a very long time», she la» she wasn't there. But, as Pankin noted, «Western colleagues» had it. «We used to call it colonial, imperialist, and so on. And now the ideology: customers who do not obey are slipping away. At first they were small, and now also large steels» , — he added. RIA Novosti acts as an information partner of the forum. Inflation in the US and EU is on the rise
