Is Europe About To Weaken Russian Sanctions?

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Tom Luongo, Zero Hedge: Russia Grinds Out Wins In Europe

Europe is finally coming to its senses five years after the coup in Kiev started what is now the new Cold War between Russia and the West.

The first part of Russia’s win comes from Italian leader Matteo Salvini. Speaking for the under-represented in European politics, Salvini declared this week, “I continue to believe that we don’t need sanctions. The issue of their removal unites all decent people.“

Salvini is tackling, head-on, the European political establishment in this week’s European parliamentary elections. And his raising the issue of lifting sanctions on Russia imposed over the reunification with Crimea is a massive attack on them.

It means that Salvini is looking at using the extension of sanctions as a bargaining chip this summer. He is threatening to veto any extension with words this strong on the eve of an election.

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WNU Editor: European sanctions against Russia are weakening. The pressure right now is on the new Ukrainian President to reach a deal with Ukraine's rebels in the east, and with Moscow that supports them. After that .... the Europeans will have the excuse that they need to eliminate most (if not all) of their sanctions against Moscow. My timetable for this to happen is two to three years.