“I am leaving soon, my business trip has come to an end.
It is no longer comfortable for me to act as a living monument to the strategic partnership between Russia and the EU, ”he told Russian journalists in Brussels.
Chizhov did not name a successor.
“I can say that during my farewell visits, I warned the Europeans that it is much easier to burn bridges than to rebuild them later,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
In addition, the European Union in the world arena stubbornly and deliberately refuses an independent role, which it has been "declaring through different mouths" for a long time, speaking of its strategic autonomy, the diplomat said.
In fact, the EU is turning into "an economic appendage of NATO," he added.