PUSH and PULL, the double-faced strategy dividing the EU from Russia

... reaction from EU authorities. A few days later during her confirmation hearing before the European Parliament, the designated High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and current Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini briefly dismissed the subject, remarking that: “There has been a global effort which has been coordinated internationally. The decisions taken in the European Council have never been easy but they have always been independent...and based ...