No end to EU's anti-Russia sanctions: Germany
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said the European Union should uphold sanctions against Russia because it had not fulfilled the Minsk ceasefire agreement to end the Ukrainian conflict. This ceasefire deal is the 'yardstick'  for the future of the sanctions, Merkel added. The EU had recently extended sanctions against Russia until​ January 2017 over its annexation of Crimean peninsula in 2014.