If the European Union begins to use the euro for foreign policy pressure in the same way as the United States is done with the dollar, then Russia will declare a policy of refusing from the European currency, said in an interfax of the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Alexander Pankin.
According to him, as soon as Moscow notice that the euro becomes a pressure and control tool, it will use the whole “luggage of knowledge and mechanisms of dedollarization”, accumulated lately.
The diplomat admitted that so far problems in the calculations in the euro, Russia does not notice, so there are reasons to abandon the currency, except for purely political, no. Now such behavior would be economically inappropriate and led to losses for Russian business, Pankin said.