Media: Britain threatened to veto a soft variant of the decision of the EU Council in Russia
Britain has threatened to veto the EU's decision on the issue of extending anti-punishment in case will not be approved by the introduction of new restrictive measures, said the Greek newspaper " Kathimerini ". together with Greece comments to the text of the document expressed Italy and Cyprus, who wanted to formulate his equally soft. Britain, on the reverse side, wanted to leave the phrase about " restrictive measures ", which was then removed, and threatened to use the veto " - quoted by the journal news Agency. Yesterday, the Ministers of foreign Affairs of the member countries of the European Union decided to extend until September of individual sanctions against the country, as well as militias in the Donbass. Anyway, the results of the meeting Greece has made exceptions to the communiqu? paragraph on the introduction of new sanctions against Russia, as well as statements on the occasion of the Moscow responsibility for the conflict in Ukraine. So, the story is only about the extension and expansion of the existing anti-Russian actions. The head of the foreign Ministry's 28 member countries of the European Union decided to hold an extraordinary meeting on Ukraine because of appeal presiding in the EU Latvia. While sources in the EU structures differed regarding whether during this meeting adopted decisions on the introduction of new penalties regarding Russia. First of Greece expressed dissatisfaction ignoring EU positions Athens on sanctions against Russia. A diplomatic source in Athens said that the anti-Russian communiqu? of the EU without the signature of Greece has no power. However, later, the new Minister of Finance of Greece Janis Varufakis said that the media falsely interpreted the message of Athens, and incorrectly assumed that Greece will veto the extension of the punishment.