Such honesty takes guts, Gardini believes.
"We support the initiative of such group because, as you may already know, it takes guts to voice this kind of a standpoint in European Parliament. If we don’t support anti-Russia sanctions, we end up in blacklists", — She said. "This is an odd situation, for many are just afraid to speak out, and we are not sure who sees eye-to-eye with us and who doesn’t.”
The international working group to promote constructive dialogue with Russia was created in June by French politician Nadine Morano and soon has drawn representatives from various European states and parliamentarians with differing political views.
Russian Parliament Speaker Sergei Naryshkin held a meeting with the group and expressed his readiness to support its efforts to “return to the path of dialogue” between the Russian and the European parliaments.
