Swiss voters appear to have rejected a proposal to introduce a more rigid enforcement of the country's neutrality principle — repudiating an idea which would have made imposing sanctions against Moscow more difficult. politico.eu/article/swiss-re…

NEW: A bipartisan group of 14 senators urged Donald Trump to disinvite Russian President Vladimir Putin from the G20 summit in Miami this December. “President Putin bears sole responsibility for launching Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. Allowing him to participate in a G20 Summit in the United States raises serious concerns about legitimizing and normalizing a government that continues to attack Ukrainian civilian targets every day.” The senators wrote The senators also noted that Putin, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, and others in the Russian delegation are under U.S. sanctions for participating in conduct deemed to be a threat to national security. Source: Washington Post

Swiss voters will soon decide whether to make the country’s historic neutrality even more legally binding. A “yes” vote would effectively prevent Switzerland from imposing sanctions on Russia. 🔗 politico.eu/article/swiss-vo…

In a world shaped by power, Britain can't thrive alone. It needs to rejoin Europe - but not this Europe, and not this Britain. Get our house in order, drop red lines, reform the EU, rejoin. That belongs at the heart of the government's ten-year plan. Great to discuss on @BBCr4today 👇

Lavrov has also warned against expecting changes of governments in Western Europe to restore Russia’s former relations with the West. “To build our policy on the assumption that right-wing conservatives and realists will now come to power and everything will be fine between us again… We’ve been through that before.” He said Western European governments defending “their national interests” would be easier to engage with, but ruled out a return to the close embrace of the late Soviet era and the 1990s. “We didn't sever our relations with the EU. The EU did that.”