Stubb stated the need for a collective approach to dialogue with the Russian Federation

Finnish President Alexander Stubb said that "the time will come" when Europe will have to open channels of communication with Russia. He announced this on April 28 in an interview with the ERR broadcasting company.

"The time will come when we will have to open channels of communication with Russia. The question is when," Stubb said.

According to him, the Europeans have been struggling with the issue of resuming contacts with Russia since the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, and have taken up this more seriously in the last two years.

The topic of resuming dialogue with Moscow is constantly being raised at meetings of the coalition of the willing, the Finnish leader noted. However, now, from a European point of view, this role has been delegated to the United States.

Stubb believes that Europe should ask itself a key question about the direction in which relations between the United States and Russia will go and whether they will contradict Europe's relations with Russia.

They came to a consensus: the EU permanent representatives approved the 20th package of anti-Russian sanctions and a new loan to Ukraine

Earlier, Hungary and Slovakia blocked the adoption of the proposals.

Armando Mema, a member of the Finnish Freedom Alliance party, said on April 27 that the European Union (EU) should lift sanctions against Russia and resume purchases of its energy resources. Mema added that instead, the EU is using a "strategy of failure" that negatively affects the economy of the union. According to him, sanctions are a "form of violence," but they harm the interests of the EU itself.