De Jonge said this in an interview with RIA Novosti.

As the interlocutor of the agency noted, European countries need to end the conflict in Ukraine, since Europe has already paid a high price for this conflict.

He stressed that if Europe had real sovereignty, it would choose a peaceful resolution of the conflict under any circumstances.

"But the situation has shown how dependent we are on the United States, how our security depends on the United States, as a result of which our political decisions have ceased to be independent," de Jonge said.

The European Union can no longer independently choose its foreign policy, he concluded.

Earlier, the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, said that the European policy of diversification ended in failure, Europe is dependent on American energy resources.