EU taking careful approach with sanctions
Finland's foreign trade minister Alexander Stubb explains the eurozone is being cautious with imposing sanctions.
People are expecting us to come out with some kind of message on how we can get come cool collected resolution to this difficult situation. And you don’t always do that we just sanctions counter sanctions. The dialogue mister may open. Finland has 1300 kilometers’ border with Russia. 10% of our trade is
with Russia. They are our biggest trade partner. If we go for meeting the economic sanctions. It’s gonna spread trouble.
Finland is on the front line, I am sure you are aware that just today the US has beafed the sanctions include a bank that is run by a man Cooper’s runtenbord. Another person is on the US that is called Gennatic Shanco. What if the two individuals have Russia in Finland’s …is that a difficult
position?
Well not really, because that is a United States’ sanctions list. It would put us in the difficult situation, if it was a European Union list as such, and that would be probably a first time in history of EU put in sanctions for someone to trouble inside EU has internationality.