In 2015, the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras repeatedly said that Greece would seek to mend ties between Russia and EU through European institutions, also said Greece was not in Favour of Western sanctions imposed on Russia, it risked the start of another Cold War.[167]
A number of business figures in France and Germany have opposed the sanctions. The German economy minister Sigmar Gabriel said that the Ukrainian crisis should be resolved by dialogue rather than economic confrontation,] later adding that the reinforcement of anti-Russian sanctions will "provoke an even more dangerous situation... in Europe".
Paolo Gentiloni, the Italian minister of foreign affairs, said that the sanctions "are not the solution to the conflict".[1In January 2017, Swiss economics minister and former president of Switzerland Johann Schneider-Ammann stated his concern about the sanctions' harm to the Swiss economy.
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