Romania’s President Traian Basescu on Monday accused the European Union of being weak and too slow in imposing sanctions on Russia to deter it from encroaching further into Europe after its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea.
An ex-communist state on the Black Sea, Romania joined the EU in 2007 and has been among the most vehement advocates of Western sanctions against Moscow after neighboring Ukraine lost control of its peninsula and some of its eastern territories.
“We’re now facing a reality because we didn’t discourage Putin, because in Eastern Europe there’s a conflict fueled by the Russian Federation, with military equipment, politically, with …read more
Source: Voice of America
