21 of March. The EU has increased the list of people banned from entering the member countries of the EU, their Bank accounts if they have in European banks will be frozen. The list has expanded from 21 to 33 people. Economic sanctions of the country to enter the EU while not intend.
The exact names that appear on this list, have not been disclosed. They will become known after publication in the official journal of the EU. The only thing that told Herman van Rompuy (EU President) are included in this list people are really high grade.
In addition, countries at the EU summit agreed to suspend preparations for the summit with Russia and canceled the summit Russia-EU, which was scheduled for June of the current year. EU countries insist on the territorial integrity of Ukraine and de-escalate the crisis.
Herman van Rompuy stressed that the EU did not recognize the accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation. He also noted that the sanctions imposed by the EU is not revenge, but only way to resolve the crisis. Herman van Rompuy demanded that Ukraine was immediately placed mission of the Organization for security and cooperation in Europe. Otherwise, he promised that the EU will deploy its own mission.
José Manuel Barroso (President European Commission) acknowledged that the EU has not yet decided on possible economic and trade sanctions on Russia. He noted that discussion of such sanctions is already underway, however, the consent of the country have not reached. According to him, the exact timing of completion of negotiation is not defined.
The European Union instructed the European Commission to consider measures of trade and economic character against the Crimea. It was previously reported that the European Commission was given the task to develop measures to reduce the dependence of the energy plan from Russia.
Recall that the first edition of "black list" adopted by the EU Council on 17 March. This list consisted of 21 people – 10 of the Russian Parliament, 8 representatives of a management of Crimea, 3 – military: commander of the black sea fleet, commander of the Western military district, the commander of the Southern military district.
It was planned that on March 18 Herman baths Rompuy will meet in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin. However, the visit was postponed indefinitely. The Russian foreign Ministry said that the cancellation of the visit due to the fact that the EU does not want to know the truth about events in Ukraine.
