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Jean Claude Juncker of the European People’s Party said: “Those who are criticising Europe for having a too weak reaction, they do want to go for a war because that’s the alternative to sanctions… We have as a soft power to dialogue, and to put pressure on Russia.”
Guy Verhofstadt of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats called on the EU to do more to stand up to the Russian president. “Putin shall not stop if he sees a weak European Union which is not capable to launch – I am not saying economic sanctions – but at least personal sanctions against the entourage of the people around Putin,” he said. “The Americans for example are tackling… the oligarchs. We have not the guts to tackle the oligarchs for the moment.”
Read and see: Euronews
Guy Verhofstadt of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats called on the EU to do more to stand up to the Russian president. “Putin shall not stop if he sees a weak European Union which is not capable to launch – I am not saying economic sanctions – but at least personal sanctions against the entourage of the people around Putin,” he said. “The Americans for example are tackling… the oligarchs. We have not the guts to tackle the oligarchs for the moment.”
Read and see: Euronews
