He stressed that “the anti-Russian sanctions policy causes serious damage to the Europeans themselves,” he said, “the budgets of the EU countries receive less than billions of dollars, tens of thousands of jobs are not being created”.

“In our opinion, the beginning awareness of the futility of political and economic pressure on Russia is already having an effect,“ life takes its own, ”said Lavrov.

Therefore, in his opinion, there is a positive trend in relations between Russia and Germany.

Earlier, Germany’s Minister for European Affairs, Michael Roth, called on European partners to “build bridges” with Russia through joint efforts.