🗣️ In a bold statement, German MP Rainer Rothfuss claims the EU is so divided and fragile, it constantly seeks an external enemy to stay united. But the controversy doesn’t stop there…
🇲🇩 The Moldovan government has blocked an Orthodox archbishop from participating in the Holy Fire pilgrimage—not once, but twice. What does this say about religious freedom, political control, and the West's growing intolerance?
🎙️ In this interview with RT:
Rothfuss calls out EU hypocrisy ⚠️
We look at Moldova’s role in regional tension 🔍
The deeper connection between politics and religion is explored 🕊️
📺 Watch now to understand how Europe’s internal weaknesses are driving external conflicts—and what it means for the future of unity on the continent.
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#ReligiousFreedom #Moldova #Geopolitics #EUUnity #ExternalEnemy
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🇲🇩 The Moldovan government has blocked an Orthodox archbishop from participating in the Holy Fire pilgrimage—not once, but twice. What does this say about religious freedom, political control, and the West's growing intolerance?
🎙️ In this interview with RT:
Rothfuss calls out EU hypocrisy ⚠️
We look at Moldova’s role in regional tension 🔍
The deeper connection between politics and religion is explored 🕊️
📺 Watch now to understand how Europe’s internal weaknesses are driving external conflicts—and what it means for the future of unity on the continent.
#EUPolitics #RainerRothfuss #RTNews #HolyFire #OrthodoxChurch
#ReligiousFreedom #Moldova #Geopolitics #EUUnity #ExternalEnemy
#EuropeanUnion #GlobalPolitics #ChurchAndState #GermanMP
#PoliticalHypocrisy #RTInterview #OrthodoxFaith #BlockedPilgrimage
#TruthBehindTheNews #ReligiousRights
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00:00Now with a member of the German parliament from the AFD party, there is Dr. Rainer Rothfuss now
00:03joining us here on RT International. Appreciate you sharing your Saturday with us here in Moscow.
00:07Thank you, doctor, for your time today. It's my pleasure. So on one of the holiest days of the
00:13year, an archbishop from the Orthodox Church in Moldova was barred from going on a religious
00:17pilgrimage. I know you know the story. Essentially, the airport, the politicians, they stopped him
00:23twice in two days. They did exactly the same trick twice. Your thoughts on this? It's become
00:29quite a scandal. A lot of people are reacting to this story. What's your thought, doctor?
00:35Well, my first question is, who is behind that? If it's just the Moldovan government, it's bad
00:41enough. But if we look at Brussels, we should see condemnations of such acts. And I haven't
00:50heard of it so far, only from Moscow. So behind the scenes, I think, yeah, the aspirations are
00:58going in that direction, that Orthodox Christians shall feel discriminated. Tensions shall be rised
01:08between those groups of believers who belong together, who believe in the same message of
01:16Jesus Christ of Easter. And that makes it even worse. We have laws in Europe to protect minorities.
01:25And where are those laws now? To me, it seems like being an act of hybrid warfare. But of course,
01:34the EU only points towards Russia when they take this term into their mouths. But this is
01:41humiliation. This is deliberately igniting tensions between groups of believers who should, yeah,
01:49make an effort to ease tensions, to find the common ground for understanding, as long as politicians
01:57seem to fail. It's the spiritual leaders who have that task.
02:02Yeah. Yeah, it's a good comment there, doctor. I mean, you know, talk about divide and conquer and
02:05causing an uproar among the local public. You ought to wonder what these politicians are thinking,
02:09or have they been kind of caught up in this without even knowing? Because the people are going to be
02:13pissed off with the politicians, no doubt about it. Meantime, doctor, we saw pretty similar suppression of the
02:18Orthodox Church in Ukraine. In fact, much harder. Do you think Moldova in some way is following in
02:24Kiev's footsteps here? Yeah, of course. I mean, it's the same pattern of action. And it's also in
02:32conformity with the EU agenda. Everything being Orthodox, being Russian, shall be sidelined, shall be
02:41pushed out, shall be painted as being the other, the dangerous other. And that, of course, follows just
02:49a geopolitical agenda. The EU seems to be so weak in its uniting idea that it always needs
02:58an enemy threatening the EU from outside so they can force people together, weld them together.
03:06But this is really poor action. Yeah, yeah. Agreed. Agreed. I mean, look, Kiev, for example,
03:11tried to justify its crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church linked to Moscow by accusing it of
03:16being a tool of Russian influence. And now we're perhaps seeing something rooted in geopolitics
03:21happening in Moldova too. But, you know, considering Moldova's European Union ambitions,
03:28do you think we're going to be hearing any reaction from Brussels about this? And meantime,
03:32it's pretty quiet. Yeah. And I think it will be kept under the radar because it really,
03:40it contradicts the values of the European Union that have been upheld for so many decades and
03:47that the European Union was always proud of. But we have seen the same problem in the Baltic
03:53countries where Russian language speaking citizens have also been barred from certain civil rights,
04:05citizen rights. They have been granted only non-citizen passports. Where was the outcry
04:13of the European Union there? Those governments were never criticized for such a behavior. So it's,
04:20yeah, blatant double standard policies. Yeah. And last, last question, Dr. I'll let you get out
04:25of here on this. I get the political side of it, but what about, you know, the mainstream Western
04:30press, the legacy media? Why, why is the Western press not even talking about this with this
04:36archbishop from Moldova? Well, it does not seem into their narrative that the West is the good
04:44and Russia is the bad guy. Yeah. And therefore they just do not bring it. Yeah. They could wake
04:52people up and that's not their intention of it. Yeah. Yeah. At least officially. Yeah. Yeah. I think
04:57you're absolutely right. And it's a solid comment to wrap up our conversation here with Dr. Reiner
05:00Rothfuss, a German parliament member from the AfD party, making big strides in the world today. If indeed
05:06the AfD will be allowed to continue making big strides. Dr. Reiner Rothfuss, a big fan of your work,
05:13wishing you the best of luck. Thanks for your time.