Today, EU foreign ministries will discuss new sanctions against Russia
Moscow – Kyiv, July 22 (Navigator, Mikhail Stamm) – Today in Brussels, the foreign ministers of the EU countries will discuss tightening sanctions against Russia due to the situation in Ukraine. The UK is the most active. The downing of a Malaysian plane over Donbass became a catalyst for the process.
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Initially, the meeting was convened to monitor the implementation of agreements reached at the EU summit on July 16. Then the leaders of the EU countries agreed to expand the blacklists of Russian individuals and legal entities, cut down cooperation programs with Russia, suspend Russian projects of the EIB and EDB, and also make investment flows to Crimea as difficult as possible. But after the Malaysian Boeing was shot down, a number of EU countries said that these measures were not enough.
Great Britain is the most determined. Prime Minister David Cameron directly announced the involvement of Russian-backed militias in the plane crash and called on his European colleagues to move to the third stage of sanctions - restrictions on entire sectors of the Russian economy. According to Bloomberg diplomatic sources, today the new head of the British Foreign Ministry, Philip Hammond, will demand the introduction of a complete embargo on the supply of arms and dual-use products to the Russian Federation.
France and Germany took a more restrained position, offering to wait for the results of the investigation.
Analysts do not rule out that today the heads of EU diplomacy will only discuss a set of possible measures against the Russian Federation, and a meeting of heads of state will be required to vote on them. According to experts, much will depend on the position of the most affected country - the Netherlands.
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