WSJ: the head of the EU foreign Ministers have the opportunity to decide on sanctions against Russia on June 22
The head of the EU foreign Ministers have the opportunity to take an opinion on the extension of economic penalties against Russia at a meeting in Luxembourg on 22 June 2015, says the magazine.
Western countries since March 2014 several times already imposed penalties because Russia's position on Ukraine. In March 2015 has been extended sanctions List of the USA. Economic penalties against Russia expires at the end of July 2015.
according to the wall Street Journal, the EU ambassadors will discuss the extension of sanctions, after which the issue has a chance to be included in the agenda of the meeting of the foreign Ministers of European countries in Luxembourg. As the magazine stresses, the meeting will discuss the punishment, so that they are able to be taken without debate.
first it was claimed that Luxembourg As the future head of the EU expects that the conclusion on the extension of economic sanctions against Russia will be made at the conference the EU at the end of June, should be extended for six months until January 2016. The EU summit will be held June 25-26. Luxembourg will hold the EU presidency from July to December 2015.
in early summer, a source close to the leadership of the EU, said Last news that the document prolonging the anti-Russian economic sanctions, will be created after the summit of heads of EU countries.
It was also noted that the Council of Ministers of foreign Affairs of the EU countries at a meeting in Luxembourg on the twentieth of June, As expected, will not discuss the issue of anti-Russian sanctions.
Western countries since March 2014 several times already imposed penalties because Russia's position on Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices were the limits imposed in March 2015, when expanded sanctions List of the USA. In addition, the summit "the Big seven" in Bavaria it was decided to extend the punishment against Russia, and the United States considering the introduction of a new.
The list of Russian citizens and organizations who have fallen under the punishment - in the material of the Fins news