The European Union will lift economic sanctions against Russia only when it fulfils all the conditions of a peace deal agreed with Ukraine, national leaders of the EU’s member states decided today (19 March) at a summit in Brussels.
The agreement amounts to an adjustment of the EU’s eight-month-old regime of economic sanctions to reflect the outcome of a peace deal brokered last month in Minsk by the leaders of Germany and France, Angela Merkel and François Hollande.
To date, the EU has linked the rollback of sanctions to a “de-escalation” of the violence in eastern Ukraine, vague terminology that enabled states …read more
Source: European Voice
