David Tessler, the US diplomat tasked with ensuring the EU maintains sanctions on Russia, is going to Rome.
But a lack of appetite in Europe for US calls to "increase the cost" on Russia for what he called its "malign behaviour" is a wider issue than just Italy's pro-Russian government, EU diplomats say.
"We assess the threat [coming from Russia], unfortunately, as getting worse not better," Tessler told press in Brussels on Tuesday (6 November).
"It's not a theoretical d...
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