Brussels, 17/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 16 July, the European Council decided to strengthen the EU sanctions in connection with the crisis in Ukraine, urging the Council to extend the legal basis and add new individuals and bodies, some of them Russian, to the sanctions list.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there had been a deepening of economic sanctions and it was now the end of level 2 and the beginning of level 3 sanctions.
In their conclusions document, Europe's...