It might have been smiles all round when Josep Borrell visited Russia last week but, facing criticism for his friendly stance and calls for his resignation, the EU’s top diplomat is now pushing for tough measures against Moscow.
Writing in a blog post on Sunday, Brussels’ high representative for foreign affairs and security policy said that his trip last week had been an opportunity “to test, through principled diplomacy, whether the Russian government was interested in addressing differences and reversing the negative trend in our relations.”
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