- EU leaders are set to meet in Brussels to discuss developments in Ukraine
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel says EU will impose more sanctions on Russia after its troops seized majority control of Crimea
- She also told the German parliament the G8 forum is suspended indefinitely
Suzannah Hills
The Daily Mail [UK]
20 March 2014
The European Union is set to impose further sanctions on Russia following its decision to annex Crimea as German Chancellor Angela Merkel today declared the G8 ‘is dead’.
EU leaders are set to meet in Brussels today to discuss how to deal with the developments in Crimea after Russian troops seized majority control of the peninsula.
In an address to the German Parliament in Berlin this morning, Merkel said the EU was readying further sanctions and that the G8 forum of leading economies has been suspended indefinitely.
Russia holds the presidency of the G8 and President Vladimir Putin was due to host his counterparts, including President Barack Obama, at a summit in Sochi in June.
But Merkel today declared the G8 will not meet again until the situation in Ukraine has been resolved…
…The Black Sea peninsula had been part of Russia for centuries until 1954 when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred it to Ukraine…
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