On Tuesday 6 November, David Tessler, from the American State Department sanctions coordination group, urged Europeans not to review the sanctions imposed on Russia at a time when Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has on several occasions called the economic sanctions against Moscow into question (see EUROPE 12064, 12120).
These measures run until 31 January 2019 and will be reviewed at the European Council in mid-December 2018.
"I feel strongly that the transatlantic community...