Venezuela Rejects Inclusion on European Union “High-Risk” List: Sovereignty and Dignity Against European Tutelage
Venezuela condemns EU “high-risk” label as attack on sovereignty and dignity.Photo:EFE
June 10, 2025 Hour: 4:43 pm
The Venezuelan government condemns the European Union’s decision to label the country as “high risk,” denouncing European double standards and defending national sovereignty and dignity against new interference attempts.
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In a new episode of diplomatic aggression, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has categorically rejected its inclusion on the European Union’s “high-risk” list, calling the measure an act of arrogance and deep incoherence by European elites.
The official statement, released Tuesday from Caracas, denounces that the real risk to the world is not Venezuela but the EU’s own inability to protect its interests, economy, and dignity.
European Double Standards and Attacks on Latin American Sovereignty
The Venezuelan government denounces the European bureaucracy as “anachronistic, aged, and disconnected from its people,” seeking to tutor Venezuela while ignoring its own internal problems of corruption and tax havens.
Venezuela’s inclusion on the list comes amid claims of “strategic deficiencies” in combating money laundering and terrorism financing, aligning with reports from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which has kept Venezuela under enhanced monitoring since 2024.
From the Bolivarian perspective and leftist movements in the Global South, this narrative is used to justify sanctions, blockades, and attempts to isolate governments that resist Northern financial and geopolitical interests. Progressive voices in Latin America warn that these lists criminalize the self-determination of peoples and perpetuate economic and political dependence.
Official Statement
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela categorically rejects its inclusion in the ridiculous list of “high-risk” countries published by the European Union. What truly represents a real risk is the European Union’s own inability to protect its interests, its economy, and even its dignity.
An anachronistic, aged, and disconnected bureaucracy now seeks to tutor Venezuela, when it cannot even govern its own space coherently. They have banks laundering money in their own capitals, officials who look the other way, and tax havens that operate with total impunity within their borders or under their protection.
Venezuela, on the contrary, is an economy in growth, with political stability and institutions that respond to its people, not to financial interests or the lobbies of the moment. We have faced blockades, sanctions, attempts at isolation, and here we stand: stronger, more firm, and without double standards.
What bothers the decrepit European elite is not the risk, but the truth: that there are countries in the Global South that no longer bow their heads, that do not accept tutelage, and that are not willing to be included in the lists of the obedient.
Caracas, June 10, 2025.
Venezuela: Resilience, Stability, and Dignity Amid Sanctions
The statement emphasizes that despite blockades and sanctions, Venezuela maintains a growing economy, political stability, and institutions that serve its people rather than foreign interests or lobbyists.
“Here we stand: stronger, more steadfast, and without double standards,” the text asserts, celebrating the country’s resistance to isolation attempts promoted from Brussels and Washington.
Analysts from alternative media and regional organizations highlight that the real concern of European elites is that countries in the Global South no longer bow their heads or accept tutelage and are determined to defend their sovereignty even under threats and international blackmail.
From Caracas, the message is clear: Venezuela will not accept being treated as a colony nor will it allow its dignity to be tarnished under unfounded pretexts. Defending sovereignty and the self-determination of peoples remains an unrenounceable banner for countries fighting for a fairer and more equitable international order.
Author: YCL
Source: teleSUR