German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

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Germany Urges EU Countermeasures Against US Over Russia Sanctions

Berlin announced that the new sanctions proposed by US lawmakers against Russia are in breach of international law, asking the European Union to take countermeasures against the bans, which could also affect European businesses.

Brigitte Zypries, the German economy minister, told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper on Monday that Berlin considers the new anti-Russia bans approved by US Congressmen “as being against international law plain and simple.”

German leaders and businessmen have expressed concerns that the new US measures could prevent German companies from working on pipeline projects deemed essential to the…