On Thursday 17 November, both the European Union and the Council of Europe welcomed the verdict of the District Court in The Hague on the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014, which resulted in the deaths of 298 passengers and crew, many of them Dutch.
Two Russians and a Ukrainian separatist were sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia, and one Russian was acquitted.
The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,...