Earlier this week, the European Council agreed to keep sanctions on Russia for another six months. In the run-up to the vote, there was talk of trying to extend the sanctions by a full year, but that was quickly shot down by the usual suspects. RFE/RL:
“We had a discussion that luckily ended without considering the option—which would have been wrong, I think—to react to the situation in Syria and Aleppo with EU sanctions against Russia,” Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said after an EU summit in Brussels on December 15.He said “a majority of countries” agreed with Italy that imposing …read more
Source: The American Interest
