{"id":56731,"date":"2026-01-03T17:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/eu-urges-de-escalation-in-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:19:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:19:04","slug":"eu-urges-de-escalation-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/eu-urges-de-escalation-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"EU urges de-escalation in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The European Union calls for de-escalation and a resolution in full respect of international law and the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations,&#8221; he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>He said the bloc would continue to support a peaceful, democratic and inclusive solution in Venezuela, and backed efforts by EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, working with member states, to ensure the safety of European citizens in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, Kallas said the EU was closely monitoring developments and called for restraint, stressing that the principles of international law and the United Nations Charter must be respected.<\/p>\n<p>Kallas said she had spoken with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the EU ambassador in Caracas, adding that the safety of EU citizens in Venezuela was the bloc&#8217;s top priority.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the United States has struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro, who was flown out of the country along with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela on Saturday denounced a &#8220;military aggression&#8221; by the United States, after large explosions were heard and aircraft were seen over the capital Caracas earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-100139 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/webp\/1614155-vene_1_.webp\" alt=\" European Council President Antonio Costa said on Saturday the European Union (EU) was following the situation in Venezuela &quot;with great concern&quot; and urged de-escalation.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Council President Antonio Costa said on Saturday the European Union (EU) was following the situation in Venezuela &#8220;with great concern&#8221; and urged de-escalation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000100140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000100140,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1767441273_us-airstrike-venezuela.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1767441273_us-airstrike-venezuela.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1767441273_us-airstrike-venezuela.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1767441273_us-airstrike-venezuela.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1767441273_us-airstrike-venezuela.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/1767441273_us-airstrike-venezuela.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000100140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56731"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56731"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}