The European Union recognizes the fallacy of sanctions against Russia and is looking for a plausible pretext for abandoning them, says 1st Deputy head of the economic Department of the state Duma and the 1st Deputy head of the parliamentary faction "Fair Russia" Mikhail Emelyanov. The EU leaders at a meeting on Thursday agreed not to renew punishment with respect to Russia and automatically to link this issue with the full implementation of the Minsk agreement on the East-Ukrainian settlement. "This position of the European Union said about the fact that sanctions against Russia was clearly a mistake. The European Union is not ready to admit it publicly, But looking for any excuse to save face and from punishment to refuse, " said Emel'yanov correspondents on the last working day of the week. He believes that the European economy loses from punishment much more than Russia. "But Very important: using punishment to change Russia's policy on what was expected by the EU Leaders, did not work ", - said the Deputy. "for this reason, the Europeans need to look for some plausible excuses for the waiver of penalties, and honestly admit that the introduction of penalties was a mistake to abandon them and to build a normal partnership relations with Russia," He said. Western countries from March 2014 has repeatedly imposed sentences because of the position of Russia in Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices were the limits imposed in March 2015, when was expanded US sanction List. A list of Russian citizens and organizations that have come under penalties - in the material of the Fin news