{"id":308640,"date":"2026-10-28T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=308640"},"modified":"2026-10-28T15:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:12:18","slug":"euronews%d6%89-after-months-dithering-europe-shows-its-ready-for-talks-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/308640\/","title":{"rendered":"Euronews\u0589 After months dithering, Europe shows it&#8217;s ready for talks with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>European officials fear that the extent of contact between Russia and the United States is far greater than previously assumed in Brussels&#8228; After months of dithering and bickering, Europe is sending its strongest signals yet that it is ready to speak directly with Russia to end the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and decide the future of the continent&rsquo;s security architecture. This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.euronews.com\/2026\/10\/28\/after-months-dithering-europe-shows-its-ready-for-talks-with-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a>, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides are reportedly discussing more deals involving the Lukoil assets, nuclear technology, Arctic LNG and, most controversially, the restart of the Nord Stream pipeline and the release of immobilised Russian assets. This helps explains why Europe, after months of hesitation, is now willing to step up its role and speak directly with Russia:<\/p>\n<p>Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St&oslash;re marched ahead and held a phone call withRussian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the imminent restart of the peace process.<\/p>\n<p>Though Stubb and St&oslash;re lacked a mandate to speak on behalf of Europe &ndash; they did so as &ldquo;leaders of their respective countries&rdquo; &ndash; their overture on Tuesday immediately positioned the Nordic duo as preeminent interlocutors.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European officials fear that the extent of contact between Russia and the United States is far greater than previously assumed in Brussels&#8228; After months of dithering and bickering, Europe is sending its strongest signals yet that it is ready to speak directly with Russia to end the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and decide the future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":308628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308641,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308640\/revisions\/308641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}