The Western media are writing more and more about the impact of the flow of the refugees from the Middle East on the minds of those in power in the European Union in terms of relations with Russia. From the point of view of European analysts, the refugees have not only changed the balance of power between the EU and Russia, but have also forced Brussels and the key European countries to seek common ground with Moscow.
So journalist Klaus Deutschlandfunk Remme warns that the consequences of the influx of millions of refugees to the EU due to the continuation of the war in Syria will be unpredictable. "One consequence of this critical situation was the recognition of the need for talks with Assad. The Vice-Chancellor of Germany, Sigmar Gabriel, expressed another bitter truth: we must return to Russia," Remme said.
"Prolonged sanctions and requests for cooperation are incompatible, Gabriel said. He is right," RIA Novosti quotes the analyst. Remme also pointed out that it is now impossible to simultaneously put pressure on Russia in one direction, and to cooperate with it in the other, a different point of view "is already naive."
In turn, the Berliner Morgenpost drew attention to the increase in support for Russia's position on the Syrian crisis among German politicians, and Chancellor Angela Merkel first started talking about this, recognizing the need for talks with Bashar al-Assad. The deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU in the Bundestag, Franz Josef Jung, in turn, spoke about the inability to resolve the crisis without Russia, which automatically means the participation of Assad. The opposition is of the same opinion: the leader of the ‘Greens’, Cem Ozdemir says that talks with Assad would be useful.
The first Deputy Head of the 'Left' faction, Sahra Wagenknecht, openly urged Angela Merkel to agree to the participation of Bashar al-Assad in a Syrian settlement, as well as to terminate the sanctions against Russia. "Dear Mrs. Merkel, after hundreds of thousands were killed and millions fled, and the country was completely destroyed, you gradually begin to say that the current authorities of the country should be involved in the peace settlement in Syria and that the sanctions against Russia should be repealed. I hope your words will be followed by action soon," Wagenknecht said.
