Sanctions hurt EU more than Vladimir Putin, says senior German politician

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Germany should discuss easing sanctions on Moscow, a senior member of Friedrich Merz’s centre-right Christian Democrats has said, arguing that punitive measures were hurting Europe even more than Vladimir Putin.

Michael Kretschmer, the CDU premier in the east German state of Saxony, became the latest in a series of politicians from Europe’s largest nation to float the idea…