The Foreign Ministers of the EU Member States agreed, on Tuesday 22 February, at an informal meeting in hybrid format, on sanctions in reaction to Russia’s recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, which was strongly condemned by the European Union (see EUROPE B12895A1).
Speaking to the press after the meeting, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said that this recognition, like the arrival of...