Germany abandons its ‘soft’ approach to Russia, by Jakob Mischke and Andreas Umland
English edition blogs, 20 March 2014
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With the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea, Germany’s foreign minister is taking a tougher line with the Kremlin, and wants to upgrade relations with the new Ukrainian government. But the new German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has throughout his career been among the promoters of Germany’s “soft” approach to Russia. How deep does this change by Germany’s new foreign policy elite go?