EU foreign ministers attack call to soften Russia stance - FT.com
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A suggestion from the EU’s new foreign policy chief that the bloc consider softening its approach toward Russia drew a harsh response from the UK, Poland and other hawks as the fighting intensified in eastern Ukraine.
Federica Mogherini, the head of the EU’s external action service, had circulated a discussion paper among the bloc’s foreign ministers exploring a potential rapprochement with Russia, including a pathway to ease some economic sanctions against Moscow.
Yet at a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday, diplomats from London, Warsaw and the Baltic states, among others, blasted it as a strategic blunder at a time when Moscow appeared to be ramping up the conflict in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.