CRIMEAN ANNEXATION EUROPEAN UNION SANCTIONS AND RUSSIAN POLICY
Journal: Pakistan Journal of International Affairs
Year: 2021

The Russian military attack against Ukraine was the most aggressive development in Europe after the Cold War. The EU and its western allies, applied sanctions against Russia, but could not compel Moscow to comply with the Minsk agreement, which not only highlights the weaknesses of the EU's CFSP owing to the internal friction between those states which have soft stance on Russia and those which have hardline approach against it in the EU process to impose the penalty packages, but also damage cr