E.U. threatens firms that stop doing business with Iran over Trump sanctions
LONDON — European firms that stop doing business with Iran because of reimposed U.S. sanctions could in turn be sanctioned by the E.U., a special adviser to the 28-country bloc's top diplomat has warned.
“If E.U. companies abide by U.S. secondary sanctions they will, in turn, be sanctioned by the E.U.," Nathalie Tocci, an aide to E.U. foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, told Britain’s BBC Radio 4 on Monday night. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/e-u-threatens-firms-stop-doing-business-iran-over-trump-n898226
Who is Federica Mogherini?
Yet views expressed by Poland and EU Baltic states accusing Mogherini of being too “pro-Kremlin” have resonated in Brussels. One Italian foreign policy expert said that Mogherini’s apparent cosying up to Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a recent state visit, in which she ruled out a “military solution” to the Ukrainian crisis while urging “respect for [Russian] minorities”, makes her a bad choice to replace Catherine Ashton as the EU’s top diplomat. https://www.politico.eu/article/federica-mogherini-italys-scapegoat/
Wikipedia:
Mogherini was Italy’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from 21 February 2014 until 31 October 2014 in the centre-left Cabinet of Matteo Renzi.[1] She is a member of the Italian Democratic Party and the Party of European Socialists.
Federica Mogherini representing Italy at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
A member of the Italian Communist Youth Federation from 1988, in 1996 Mogherini joined the Youth Left after the dissolution of theItalian Communist Party before its transformation into a social democratic party. In 2001 she became a member of the National Council of the Democrats of the Left (DS), later serving on its National Executive Board and Political Committee. In 2003 she started working at the DS’s Foreign Affairs Section, where she was given responsibility for relations with international movements and parties, later becoming the team’s coordinator; after that she was given responsibility for Foreign Affairs and International Relations on the staff of DS Party chairman Piero Fassino. In this role, she oversaw relations with Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the Middle East peace process. Mogherini was in charge of maintaining relations with theParty of European Socialists, the Socialist Internationaland other Left-wing parties, including with the US Democratic Party. https://israelseen.com/2015/07/21/israel-seen-who-is-the-real-federica-mogherini/
The Love affair;
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