European Union institutions have begun days of intense discussions about a new set of measures intended to persuade Russia to roll back its military activities in Ukraine and to engage in substantive peace talks with Ukraine.
Debate about Russia’s increasingly overt engagement in fighting in Ukraine preoccupied the EU’s national leaders at an extraordinary summit on Saturday that had originally been called to decide who should become the next EU foreign policy chief and president of the European Council.
The outcome was an order to the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to come up with proposals for a …read more
Source: European Voice
