Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said the European Union can "decide on what sanctions it wants" against its government because they "have been left out of a partial view and broke all the" consultation mechanisms "bilaterally. "I really hope that they will change their minds and will not surrender to Donald Trump's plans," said Maduro in a meeting with the foreign press, during which he invited the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini to meet him " because so far it seems that only listen to the Venezuelan right. "