EU Russia sanctions are the 'toughest package possible', says Dutch PM

The package of measures which EU leaders have agreed to impose to put pressure on the Russian regime are the toughest imaginable at the moment, Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte told reporters in the early hours of Friday morning. The sanctions, said Rutte, are a signal to Russia that the world is united against events in Ukraine. ‘Whether the sanctions will have a direct impact, I don’t know,’ Rutte said. ‘But they will have an impact on the oligarchs… on...