Armgelenk sagte David Cameron bei einem Gipfelessen in Brüssel diese Woche
Holland sgate es anders:wenn du wirksame Sanktionen machst,müssen sie beide treffen,den dem sie gelten und den ,der sie verhängt
Aber schliesslich hat man bisher nur 12 Leute auf der Liste deren Besitz im Westen eingefroren wurde und die nicht in ihr geliebtes London reisen dürfen und man überlegt Handelsrestriktionen gegen die Krim,aber da gibt es nicht viel
Such is Europe’s fear of economic pain, and of retaliation by Russia, that its leaders held back from imposing economic penalties on Russia for its annexation of Crimea. They added 12 names to the list of people subject to visa bans and having their assets in Europe frozen. But in many ways they were only catching up with America’s list of designations issued on March 17th, which included members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle—among them Dimitry Rogozin, Russia’s deputy prime minister, as well as two presidential advisers, Vladislav Surkov and Sergey Glazyev—which the EU omitted.
The Europeans did not follow America’s next step, taken on March 20th, to extend the sanctions list to Sergei Ivanov, Mr Putin’s right-hand man, as well as alleged business cronies of the Kremlin (the list is here). The leaders did agree to examine “economic, trade and financial restrictions” targeted on Crimea itself so that, for example, the region could not export goods to the EU without Ukrainian customs stamps. But few officials could identify many Crimean exports to the EU.
In the bureaucratic jargon of Brussels, the annexation of Crimea merits only "Stage 2" sanctions: visa bans, asset freezes and political wrist-slapping. The latter includes suspending G8 meetings, halting formal bilateral summits and stopping negotiations on Russia’s membership of the OECD, a rich-world think-tank, and the International Energy Agency. Stage 3 sanctions, comprising unspecified “far-reaching consequences for relations on a broad range of economic areas”, would be triggered by further Russian actions “to destabilise the situation in Ukraine”. (The communiqué is here.)
What the sanctions might consist of, and how the pain might be spread more or less evenly across the EU, was left for the European Commission to study. And what would trigger the penalties would be for leaders to decide in future. But the word from Germany, among others, was that economic sanctions would be imposed only if Russia sought to occupy parts of Ukraine beyond Crimea. In other words, Crimea has been abandoned as a lost cause, to become at best a frozen conflict like the partition of Cyprus—something “we have to recognise but not accept”, as one senior EU figure put it.
.. Europeans put up various defences against the charge of being soft on Russia’s move forcibly to change Europe’s post-war borders. First, they say they are far more exposed economically than America, so cannot afford to be as forceful. Halting Russian money would hurt London and Luxembourg; blocking Russian visitors would harm Cyprus and Greece; and a gas war with Russia would hurt many countries in eastern Europe ......
Nevertheless, the symbolism was striking: Russia’s invasion of Crimea has accelerated the Ukrainian government’s alliance with Europe and America. With a round of applause, the Ukrainian prime minister, Arseny Yatsenyuk, was fully embraced by Europe’s leaders. Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, said the deal was “but the opening act” of the relationship, designed to show “our steadfast support for the course the people of Ukraine have courageously pursued”.
The leaders said they would also speed up the signature of similar association agreements with Moldova and Georgia, both of which have frozen conflicts and parts of their territory occupied by Russian forces. It is possible that the crisis could thus spread to other post-Soviet republics.
www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2014/...ssia-and-sanctions
Breugel hat eine schöne interactive Karte,bei der man die Auswirkungen ablesen kann
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