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Saturday, 30 August 2014

EU leaders to threaten extra Russia sanctions, agree new team

Ukrainian President Poroshenko shakes hands with EC President Van Rompuy, prior to an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels By Adrian Croft and Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will threaten Russia with new sanctions over Ukraine on Saturday but, fearful of a new Cold War and self-inflicted harm to their own economies, should give Moscow another chance to make peace. At a summit in Brussels that handed one of the Union's top jobs to Poland's premier and gives hawkish Kremlin critics in Eastern Europe new influence in the bloc, EU officials gave Ukraine's embattled President Petro Poroshenko a warm welcome and assurances of further economic and other support.








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