Ukraine grain strain — Von der Leyen 2.0 — EU diplomacy in review
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The Importance of Pressure in the Early Days of Russia's War in Ukraine
Do you think the EU was naive? Do you think it did enough to confront the threat posed by Putin back then? It's a really interesting question. And of course it's one that anybody involved at that time asked themselves every day, it was the more we could have done. When I wrote with colleagues the conclusions for the council, the Foreign Affairs Council, just after the Russians have got into Crimea, the word we began with was invasion. So there was no doubt in many of our minds that this was something extremely serious that we had to address. The combination it's a bit like with the Iran negotiations, it's a combination of the pressure we put on through the sanctions and keeping
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