Steven Petrov
The Paw Print
Angela Merkel: In Europe we are all different, but we are all united
“The world should not doubt in Europe’s readiness to impose more severe sanctions on Russia, if the country keeps destabilizing Ukraine and causing more political and potential military conflicts.”
The German chancellor Angela Merkel made this official statement in front of Reuters earlier last week. She also mentioned that despite the fact that there are some differences in the positions on this current crisis within the European union countries’ leaders, there would be no problem for coming up with a mutual agreement and policy to be implemented towards the resolution of the crisis.
Merkel is certain that if the territorial unity of Ukraine keeps being broken, Europe will be forced to implement more economical sanctions to the aggressor. The German chancellor spent a lot of time during the congress meeting of her Christian Democratic Union discussing the most intense and potentially dangerous current issue in the “Old continent.”
As the leader of the biggest and most powerful economy in Europe, Merkel commented on the fact that in Europe all of the countries and their leaders are different from each other, but that when it comes to making important political and economical decisions all of them can come together and unite in achieving the best for Europe.
Her main argument against the actions taken by Russia in the last month is that the right of the stronger one should not be imposed over the right of those who have weaker economies, smaller military capacity, natural resources, etc.
Up until now the EU and USA have responded to the annexation of Crimea from a couple of weeks ago, with imposing severe sanctions to certain key figures in Russia and Ukraine, as well as forbade giving new visa’s.
However, some analysts believe that Europe will not be brave enough to impose all of the further economical sanctions that EU leaders have been discussing, due to the strong independence of some EU countries on Russian natural gas supply.
The further development of this current issue will be in the world’s news spotlight for at least another couple of weeks and we will try to keep you informed on how the things develop.
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