The European Union isn’t a “sanctions geyser” and its restrictions imposed on Russia in the wake of the Ukraine crisis should be “proportional and reversible,” Italian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Friday (05/12/2014).
“The EU is not a sanctions geyser, sanctions are an instrument to a political solution,” he said during a meeting in Rome with the foreign media.
“Sanctions are a necessary evil but they are not automatically the solution. We are not in a new Cold War,” he said, insisting on the need to keep “all channels of communication open”.
However, Europe “cannot close its eyes to reality, the violation …read more
Source: Herald LIVE
