BERLIN " The EU is ready to team up with the U.S. to impose simultaneous sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin to pressure him toward peace negotiations, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview.
"We have discussed how we can implement European sanctions and American sanctions at the same time if Putin does not sit down at the negotiating table," von der Leyen told the Berlin Playbook Podcast.
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