The
European Parliament approved a draft resolution equating
counteracting Sputnik news agency and RT TV with resistance to Daesh
propaganda. The vote on the issue is set for Wednesday. Sputnik spoke
with the Executive Vice President of the Eurasia Center Earl
Rasmussen as well as the member of the EU Parliament Javier Couso,
about the issue.
Cold
War 2.0
Talking
about the EU resolution, Rasmussen said that “The EU is in panic
mode and they are trying to lash out and find an enemy. Historically
the enemy was Soviet Union and now they are grabbing at Russia even
though Russia and the Soviet Union are completely different.”
Talking
about the Russian media outlets, Rasmussen said, “The news that
I have seen is reporting quite fairly and providing multiple
perspectives and I don’t see it as a cause for that.” He said
that this could potentially lead to establishment of organizations
that will monitor news, control finances like the situation of RT in
UK when the government bank stopped financing the channel.
“This
resolution reminds of the Cold War time and that is oppressive. The
main victims of this resolution are the EU citizens who want to be
more informed about world events. Their opportunity to obtain
alternative information other than the ‘approved’ Brussels
information is being taken away,” Couso said.
“The
fact is that its adoption will serve as another argument for those
who do not cease to persuade the EU citizens about dangers of Russia,
which in the text of the document is placed on par with the Islamic
state [Daesh]. This further undermines the trust between Moscow and
Brussels,” the EU parliament member concluded.
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interview:
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