“To understand what exactly Borrel has in mind is very difficult. If the EU stops at sanctions, then this is a sanctions war. The words that this is not politics are nonsense. This is politics, moreover, politics of pressure. Since sanctions are followed in the European Union, how are they going to build the mentioned balance of interests. By force? The EU countries themselves suffer losses from the sanctions policy, ”Morozov said.
According to the senator, this statement is "not a very sophisticated kind of diplomacy, when they try to push everything into one statement at once."
Earlier, Borrel said there was no reason to abandon sanctions against Russia, "not having received anything in return" from Moscow.
Borrell also noted that restrictions in themselves are “not politics,” and stated the need to seek a balance of interests in relations between the EU and Russia.