Germany, France Pushing for End to Russia Sanctions

The US is keen to keep imposing new sanctions on Russia ad infinitum, and German vice-chancellor Sigmar Gabriel warned that there are forces in the European Union who are keen to do the same to “cripple Russia.”

With the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine holding, Germany and France are both increasingly pushing back against those sanctions, however, with French President Francois Hollande calling for sanctions to be ended outright.

Hollande insisted that Putin “doesn’t want to annex eastern Ukraine,” a point Russia has repeatedly made but which has been oft ignored over the past year. As the two biggest economic powers in the Eurozone, France and Germany seem presumably able to stop the expansion of those sanctions .... http://news.antiwar.com