The European Union will seek to renew economic sanctions against Russia when they expire at the end of July, encouraged by U.S. President Donald Trump’s unexpectedly frosty relations with Moscow, EU diplomats and officials said.
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A worker cleans the billboards near the campaign posters of French presidential election candidate for the far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen (L) and of En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron on April 28 in Cessales near Toulouse, southern France, ahead of the final round of the presidential election on May 7.