Il nuovo blocco europeo filo-Cremlino prende forma al Parlamento europeo
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ard6335aae
di thealejandrotauber
Il nuovo blocco europeo filo-Cremlino prende forma al Parlamento europeo
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ard6335aae
di thealejandrotauber
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Traitors. All of them.
Just for European self interest, I would like to see investigations and denouncing similar to,what the UShad in the McCarthy times. Thise were bad, but seems there needs to be an aggressive push, so these traitors will not get off the hook so easily any longer
To exactly nobody’s surprise. The longer the war continues and the more expensive it gets, the more traction these movements get, and the more Russia will try to influence European politics.
For fuck sake can we get real?
You can’t have a functioning democracy that allows representatives to actively support a non-democratic, hostile government.
Nazi sympathizers in the UK were dealt with through internment, imprisonment, and prosecution.
The government banned organizations like the British Union of Fascists because they knew that regardless of what they claimed, they would act as a 5th column.
What are we doing by allowing this? What end result will it possibly have other than undermining ourselves and our values?
Tolerating people that actively support harming you is not admirable. It’s just called being weak.
In late September, British politician and former MEP Nathan Gill [pleaded guilty](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6xwy015ngo) to accepting bribes from a Russian intermediary, Oleg Voloshyn. Between 2018 and 2019, Voloshyn instructed Gill on at least eight occasions to deliver anti-Ukrainian speeches in the European Parliament, spread disinformation, bring together European politicians for pro-Russian events, and carry out other activities in Moscow’s interests.
Gill is an ex-MEP from the Reform UK party — [current leader](https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/reform-uk-leads-12-pts-over-labour-both-pm-and-chancellor-hit-historic-low-satisfaction-ratings) in UK opinion polls.
When British MEPs left in 2020, the European Parliament’s pro-Russian camp lost part of its strength, yet it remained a visible force in the chamber.
Throughout the ninth mandate from 2019 to 2024 — both before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — a group of MEPs [consistently](https://euobserver.com/news/ara7e7df9e) [voted](https://euobserver.com/news/arc868637b) against resolutions condemning Moscow or supporting Kyiv.
The most prominent among them, Tatjana Ždanoka of the Russian Union of Latvia, who has been under investigation since February 2024 for alleged links to the FSB. The probe has effectively ended Ždanoka’s two-decade career in the European Parliament.
Another frequent opponent of pro-Ukraine resolutions was Germany’s Maximilian Krah from AfD. In March, he [moved to the Bundestag](https://www.euractiv.com/news/european-parliaments-far-right-wildcard-maximilian-krah-takes-a-seat-in-berlin/), which later lifted his parliamentary immunity amid an investigation into alleged espionage and corruption — reportedly in China’s, rather than Russia’s, interests.
The new European Parliament, elected in June 2024, has shifted further to the right, with conservative and nationalist parties gaining ground and forming two new groups — Patriots for Europe (PfE) and Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN).
Since taking office, the new parliament has voted on at least 14 resolutions concerning Russia and Ukraine — an early test of how its fresh line-up approaches foreign policy.
Drawing on these voting records, EUobserver and Novaya Gazeta Europe are releasing an updated ranking of the most pro-Kremlin parties and MEPs.
# Extremes unite on Russia
During the previous, ninth European Parliament, roughly 40 MEPs on average opposed resolutions concerning Russia, while another 43 chose to abstain.
In the new assembly, that number has almost doubled. Around 84 deputies now vote against such motions, with a further 62 declining to take a side. The bloc remains too small to overturn a resolution, yet the distance between the mainstream and the radicals has clearly narrowed.
Pro-Kremlin sentiment in the chamber is mostly found at its political fringes. On one end sit members of The Left, the far-left group, and on the other, the newly formed far-right alliances — PfE and ESN.
Outside the formal party blocs, the trend is similar. Among the unaffiliated MEPs — a loose mix of members from small or radical parties shunned by mainstream groups — only one in 14 Russia-related resolutions has received support.
The Romanian European parlamentarian Diana Șoșoacă attends gallas in the Russian Embassy in Bucharest for years, calls herself “friends with Puțin” and recently attended his speech in Moscow: https://agerpres.ro/english/2025/09/23/diana-sosoaca-on-request-to-lift-her-parliamentary-immunity-we-witness-yet-another-attempted-politic–1486826
Romania has requested the EU lift her immunity so she can be tried on multiple counts: https://www.romania-insider.com/diana-sosoaca-eu-immunity-reaction-sept-2025
What is the EU doing about this treason? Nothing. Russia is being left to it’s own political and propagandistic devices in th EU with virtually no real opposition at an EU level.
“Hey, maybe we like threats of being nuked! Vote for us!”
Treason will have to be answered.
Traitor scum.
how has representing russian state interests become a viable political position in europe and north america? like furthering russian foreign policy has become an ideological stance with some european parties, how is that even possible.
Send them all to mother Russia!
Many of these MEPs are too bizarre to have any functions in domestic politics (e.g. a tankie that didn’t get enough votes to get in the parliament at home, a neo-Nazi influencer or an anti-vaxxer), it boggles my mind what they’re doing in the European Parliament
How about some independent chat-control system, that is allowed to look through politicians every text/conversation and transaction.. Let EU citizens vote on that and decide..
Those in power should be put under a microscope to prevent misconduct or treason.
But I have a strange feeling politicians are not going to want that.
I know it might not be legally possible, but I wish Finland would designate these politicians as persona non grata. For me anyone who is anti-Ukraine is (at least to some degree) anti-Finland too.
What I find interesting is how the Russia issue so effectively divides the right. For example, ECR and Patriots could probably be the same group if it wasn’t for radically different views on Russia. If I remember correctly, some Nordic parties even moved from further right groups to the ECR due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It would be fascinating to be a fly on the wall in meetings between these groups to see how pro-Russia parties try to justify their treachery in private to what would otherwise be their natural allies.
Traitors!
In Italy the government tried to stop parties and affiliated groups parroting kremlin’s talking points. Then they were accused of being fascists and batoning protestants by the same crowd who claimed to be anti-fascist while supporting Putin’s genocidal war against Ukraine and hoping to globalise the intifada against jews…
>A fortress can always be taken if only a mule laden with gold can be got inside.
Philipp II of Macedon
It’s just a coincidence that a Venn diagram with “right-wing nationalists” and Russian assets(as in, literally controlled from Moscow) is a fucking circle.