
"Trust in the European Union will be undermined" if it does not prevent Russia's participation inthe 61st Venice Biennale, and the EU's top leadership should take "urgent and decisive steps" in this regard.
These were the words MEPs addressed to the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, the Foreign Ministry of the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the EU, the European Commission's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and a number of other high-ranking officials in a letter that has come into the possession of Euronews.