German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said, on Monday 13 July, that the ground had to be prepared to resume strategic discussions between the European Union and Russia.
“More needs to be done if strategic relations with Russia are to be relaunched”, he told the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Mr Maas recalled, however, that the sine qua non for the resumption of such relations was a solution in Eastern Ukraine. Acknowledging that the implementation of the Minsk agreements...