At a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday 17 October, Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini described the sanctions taken out against Russia as "economic, social and cultural madness".
"We will oppose the Brussels project of effective extension of the sanctions against Moscow indefinitely, with a sort of automatic renewal. Indeed, we will say a categorical 'no' to this. We consider it unacceptable", he said in an interview with Italian newspaperLa Repubblica.
However, the...