The shooting down of a Malaysian jet by Putin’s stooges in Ukraine has exposed Germany’s gutless stance to Moscow — Angela Merkel has ordered the EU not to pursue the necessary sanctions against Putin’s tyranny.If our new Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, is as steely as his admirers believe, he will demand the EU shuts banking and financial systems to Putin and his kleptocrats who launder their cash through them.Source - Daily Mail - here.
---------------------------------------
COMMENT
More of Daily Mail's typical anti-German stance.
Again, it's the two-for-the-price-of-one swipe.
Under fresh sanctions that were just announced, the EU has shut down banking to Russia:
EU - blocking all lending from:
- European Investment Bank
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - here.