Former German chancellor says only current EU leaders will be 'taken seriously' by Putin
Angela Merkel has urged EU leaders to negotiate directly with the Kremlin to end the war in Ukraine while ruling herself out as an envoy.
Merkel, who negotiated the so-called Minsk II accords in 2015 that failed to end a Moscow-fomented civil war in southeastern Ukraine, said that only current EU leaders would be “taken seriously” by Vladimir Putin.
“What I regret is that, in my view, Europe is not making sufficient use of its diplomatic potential,” she said at an event in Berlin on Monday.
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