In first newspaper interview in office, Federica Mogherini questions whether sanctions would force Russian policy shiftThe illegal and illegitimate elections in breakaway eastern Ukraine on Sunday may have killed off all prospects of a political and diplomatic settlement of the Ukraine crisis, the European Unions new foreign policy chief warned on Monday, while also questioning whether EU sanctions on Russia would force Vladimir Putin into a policy shift.In her first newspaper interview as successor to Britains Catherine Ashton , Federica Mogherini, the former Italian foreign minister, told the Guardian that the rebel elections, supported by Moscow and denounced almost everywhere …read more
Source: The Guardian