​Pragmatic or pointless? Europe’s rift over whether to pick up the phone to Putin

With no single European representative negotiating directly with Moscow, some leaders are establishing their own channels – with messy results The Nordic countries rarely fall out in public over foreign policy, least of all over Russia. But a 90-minute phone call this week to…

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