BERLIN – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier believes easing EU sanctions on Russia — provided it fulfils certain conditions — is an important element in the hunt for a solution to the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
“We should be smart when it comes to dealing with these sanctions,” he told foreign journalists in Berlin on Tuesday. “To me, ‘smart’ means that if there is truly substantial progress — and currently there is no such progress, yet — we can consider easing sanctions, step-by-step.”
The EU’s sanctions on Russia’s energy, financial and defense sectors, imposed following Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula two …read more
Source: European Voice
