{"id":40075,"date":"2026-06-01T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-eu-promises-support-for-armenia-against-russian-pressure-before-the-parliamentary-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:31:10","slug":"the-eu-promises-support-for-armenia-against-russian-pressure-before-the-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/the-eu-promises-support-for-armenia-against-russian-pressure-before-the-parliamentary-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU promises support for Armenia against &#8220;Russian pressure&#8221; before the parliamentary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/thumbs_b_c_5566113e404a13c547a3e25cfde9ab7a-1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The European Union (EU) on Monday pledged continued support to Armenia against what it described as Russian efforts to pressure the country ahead of parliamentary elections, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a European Commission press conference, spokesman Anouar El Anouni said the bloc is helping to strengthen Armenia&#8217;s democratic institutions and resistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are supporting Armenia&#8217;s democratic resistance, including hybrid threats, manipulation of foreign information and interference, as well as efforts to undermine trust in democratic institutions,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>El Anouni accused Moscow of trying to influence political developments in the South Caucasus nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s also be clear, the timing is not a coincidence. Russia intends to damage Armenia&#8217;s economy and influence the outcome of the parliamentary elections in Armenia,&#8221; he said ahead of Sunday&#8217;s vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to we support Armenia to withstand such coercion efforts,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said the EU remains a &#8220;reliable and reliable partner&#8221; for Armenia and stressed that ties between the two sides are &#8220;stronger than ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He cited the first EU-Armenia summit in May, attended by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa, as evidence of deepening relations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a signal in itself that we are listening to the population of Armenia, which supports closer cooperation with the European Union&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union (EU) on Monday pledged continued support to Armenia against what it described as Russian efforts to pressure the country ahead of parliamentary elections, Anadolu reports. Speaking at a European Commission press conference, spokesman Anouar El Anouni said the bloc is helping to strengthen Armenia&#8217;s democratic institutions and resistance. \u201cWe are supporting Armenia&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-40075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":9,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40077,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40075\/revisions\/40077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}