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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a Nov. 8, 2016, campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Paul Sancya\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The EU has imposed sanctions on Russia over its annexation of Crimea and destabilizing role elsewhere in Ukraine. Some of those measures, including asset freezes on individuals and organizations, come up for renewal in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EU leaders are due to discuss them at a summit in Brussels on Dec. 15-16, but any signal from Trump about a softening of U.S. relations with Russia is likely to embolden already-reluctant countries like Germany, Italy and others to push for an end the sanctions regime, diplomats said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The EU foreign ministers will meet again formally on Monday, to discuss strained ties with membership candidate country Turkey, the conflict in Syria and Libya, and defense cooperation with the NATO military alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Writing in Britain’s Observer newspaper, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg insisted that Europe and the U.S. must work together in the face of security challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stoltenberg appeared to be responding to Trump’s criticism of NATO during his campaign. The president-elect has suggested that Washington could abandon its NATO commitments, which include mutual defense in case of attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We face the greatest challenges to our security in a generation. This is no time to question the value of the partnership between Europe and the United States,” Stoltenberg wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Britain distanced itself from the European meeting, suggesting it intends to take a different approach to Trump. Officials said Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson \u2014 who has told his EU counterparts to snap out of the “general doom and gloom” and “collective whinge-o-rama” following the U.S. election result \u2014 would skip Sunday’s talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We do not see the need for an additional meeting on Sunday because the U.S. election timetable is long established,” the Foreign Office said in a statement. “We will work with the current and future administrations to ensure the best outcomes for Britain.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sylvia Hui contributed to this story from London.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" European Union foreign ministers will gather Sunday to discuss the impact of Donald Trump’s election on trans-Atlantic ties and whether it will complicate relations with an increasingly belligerent Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":100452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":16,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1659],"class_list":["post-63302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"7MZR5ETSTNB7TDU2KMFEDAJ3HM","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/2016\/11\/13\/eu-foreign-ministers-to-gather-to-grapple-with-trump-impact\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n