Josep Borrell says ties are at the lowest level even as EU hesitates to use economic sanctions
The EU should prepare for “a further downturn” in its relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the bloc’s top diplomat has warned.
As Joe Biden and Putin talked at a lakeside mansion in Geneva, the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, unveiled a strategy aimed at charting a course for EU-Russia relations. Ties between the two sides have hit a post-cold war low following Kremlin-orchestrated cyber-attacks and election interference, the frozen conflict in eastern Ukraine, and the poisoning and jailing of opposition politician Alexei Navalny.