Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Francois Hollande had a phone call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, a day after Putin “postponed” a visit to Paris. They said in a statement that they had “worked together” to set up a so-called Normandy Format meeting with Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko to discuss the implementation of the Minsk agreement to end the war in eastern Ukraine. But no meeting was announced. …read more
Source: EUobserver
