Looking Back at Trump and Putin. The European Union Adopted the 17th Sanctions Package Against Russia.
The latest EU sanctions package took a long time to adopt. Firstly, due to the usual resistance from Hungary, which is always against restrictions on Russian oil and gas that it itself uses. Secondly, EU officials faced a tricky task: not to anger Donald Trump with too harsh sanctions—he could accuse the EU of sabotaging his “magnificent deal” with Russia—and to signal to Vladimir Putin that making peace would be cheaper than continuing the war.