The US has repeatedly told European allies it would move ahead on new sanctions only in co-ordination with the EU. Daniel Fried, the state department’s chief sanctions co-ordinator, has recently stated, the US-imposed sanctions could be lifted this year.(…)
All in all, the EU suffered 90 billion euro losses in 2014-2015. Russian Deputy Economic Development Minister Alexey Likhachev has said that the anti-Russian sanctions and counter measures cost the European Union up to 40 billion euro in 2014 and another 50 billion euro in 2015 as a result of Russia sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine.