EU says deeply concerned over U.S. growing use of sanctions
High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said on Friday he was deeply concerned over the growing use of sanctions, or the threat of sanctions, by the United States against European companies and interests.
“We have witnessed this developing trend in the cases of Iran, Cuba, the International Criminal Court and most recently the Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream projects,” Borrell said in a statement.
Emphasizing that “European policies should be determined in Europe not by third countries,” Borrell said the EU opposes the use of sanctions by third countries on European companies carrying out legitimate business, and the bloc “considers the extraterritorial application of sanctions to be contrary to international law.”
He said
the EU is always open to dialogue, but “this cannot take place against the threat of sanctions.”
On Thursday, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas rejected Washington’s latest threat of sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany.
The Kremlin also said Thursday that Washington’s threat to impose sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 as well as the second line of the TurkStream pipeline stretching from Russia to Turkey across the Black Sea is “unfair competition.”
On Wednesday,
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent fresh warnings of possible sanctions to companies involved in Nord Stream 2 and the second line of the TurkStream pipeline.
Pompeo claimed that the projects are not commercial but serve as Moscow’s tools to exploit European dependence on Russia’s energy supplies.
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Source: Xinhua
Trump is a sick man, highly dangerous given the huge powers U.S. Law grants the president. Thinking that the world’s largest nuclear arsenal is in the hands of this Psycho should make us all shiver…
Sanctions is a piece of cake in comparison.
Time for the E.U nations to to say NO to The American Thugocracy. America is a dying empire just like the former Soviet Union. Europe and European states should not hitch their wagon to the global bully posing as a benevolent friend. The US is no ones friend except the one that has America wrapped around their finger due to blackmailing the senior political class in Washington. They are joined at the knees with the Epstein/Ghislane Maxwell scandal and their MOSSAD connection.