Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs has admitted that Riga “stood to the end” regarding its lone objection to take two wealthy Russian businessmen off the European Union’s wide-ranging sanctions list.
But he warned that the exemption should be a one-off occurrence and not be par for the course when debating EU sanctions in the future.
“Either it is sports, what we’ve seen, either culture, and now one by one cherry-picking out of sanctions, that is not the way to go,” he said.
“That is normalising Russia.”
After two weeks of drawn-out talks among EU ambassadors, France succeeded in its push on Tuesday to remove Alisher Usmanov from the…
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