Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is trying to have it both ways.Just days after attending the G7 summit, which highlighted the possibility of stepping up sanctions against Russia should it not meet the commitments it made in the Minsk agreements, Renzi hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin in Milan, where he spoke of the “traditional Italian-Russian friendship.”Alluding to the eventual end of EU sanctions on Russia, Putin offered “to reciprocate and go further in expanding our co-operation.”We won’t have to wait long to find out whether his rhetoric worked. The current sanctions regime imposed on Russia by the European Union is …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
