The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, pledged once again on Tuesday 23 August at the second summit of the ‘Crimea Platform’ that the EU would never recognise the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia.
In two separate speeches, the leaders denounced the 2014 annexation of the region in Ukraine and noted that it had been used as an outpost for the 2022 war. Since its annexation, “Crimea has been...