Lack of EU unity will prevent new anti-Russian sanctions

The European Union will not tighten its sanctions policy against Russia as several of its members would block such move, a senior Russian MP in charge of foreign policy has said.

 

“As far as new sanctions are concerned, now I am sure that Europe is very unlikely to impose them, because there are nations that would not agree to this – Greece, Cyprus, Hungary and Italy. And if even a single nation does not agree there would be no decision, such is the voting procedure,” deputy head of the Lower House committee for international relations, Leonid Kalashnikov, told Izvestia daily.

 

The MP added that the general attitude to the sanctions against Russia has changed not only in parts of the EU, but around the world as well. Thus, in the current situation it was much simpler for the EU to prolong the existing sanctions than to introduce any new ones, he said.

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