• Venezuela.The opposition changes the rules of the Assembly so that exiled deputies can vote

The new High Representative of Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, calls for realism in Venezuela because of the difficulty of getting the president recognized by most European countries, Juan Guaidó, to take power. "You have to be realistic. Things are as they are. Almost a year later Guaidó is still where he was and Maduro is where. If Maduro does not want to leave we have a problem, this is not fixed with invitations to divinity," said the new European diplomacy coordinator before Spanish journalists in Strasbourg.

Borrell stresses that his obligation is "to be multilateralist and unitary" in the sense of trying to combine all sensibilities, because he faces in the European Parliament what he considers "a division in the political spectrum between a part more devoted to Maduro and another one to Trump. " He believes that there is to be "more proactive" and "see what else can be done", but has only aimed for now to advance in the diplomatic activity of the so-called "contact group" , created at his proposal as a foreign minister of Spain .

Borrell has been reluctant to include new sanctions among the news and, in any case, rules out that they are massive. "The EU has not established sanctions against the Venezuelan people. There is no need to impose massive economic sanctions that would only worsen a dramatic situation in Venezuela."

Nor is it clear for now to harden personal pressure on the dome of the regime of Nicolás Maduro. "There is no proposal from any country for new sanctions to apply," he stressed. "Sanctions have to be justified. Current accounts are blocked by court order in a rule of law," he said as an example of the difficulty of hardening the pressure.

In his first meeting with the press since he assumed his new position two weeks ago, Borrell said that the relationship "with Latin America" ​​will be one of his priorities . "Five years ago a European Union summit with Latin America is not held and the bad thing is that no one has thrown it out of hand. It is an anomaly," he criticized.

On the current negotiation of the PSOE with Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, he has not wanted to give an opinion from his new responsibility at the head of the Union's foreign policy.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Venezuela
  • European Union
  • European Parliament
  • PSOE
  • Nicolás Maduro
  • Juan Guaidó
  • Josep Borrell
  • Spain
  • Venezuela Elections

Venezuela Juan Guaidó rescues a deputy besieged by military counterintelligence

Venezuela Chavismo withdraws immunity to four opposition deputies and accuses them of treason

International Uncertainty night in Uruguay with narrow advantage of the center right