[Josep] Borrell, speaking at an annual conference of EU ambassadors, admitted that Brussels was “quite reluctant” to believe US warnings that Russia was going to invade Ukraine in February and had failed to analyse Russian president Vladimir Putin’s actions.
“We didn’t believe it will happen . . . And we haven’t foreseen neither the capacity of Putin to escalate,” he said.
Borrell added Brussels failed to understand what other countries wanted, and instead pushed its own ideas on them.
“We think that we know better what is in other people’s interests,” he said. “We have to listen more . . . to the rest of the world. We need to have more empathy.
“We try to export our model, but we don’t think how others will perceive this,” he added.
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