Bloomberg: Merkel minister says 'all or nothing' Russia sanctions failed

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier advocated a possible easing of European Union economic sanctions against Russia even before a peace plan for eastern Ukraine is fully implemented. The "all or nothing" approach of getting Russia to fulfill its part of last year's European Union-brokered Minsk agreement between Russia and Ukraine has failed to yield the desired results, Steinmeier told foreign reporters in Berlin on May 31.