Merkel`s Bavarian ally calls for quick end to Russian sanctions

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"We have to get out of the bloc thinking of the 20th century," Seehofer told the newspaper. "I`m arguing for realpolitik not sabre-rattling," Seehofer told the newspaper. Merkel spoke on Saturday with U.S. President Donald Trump, but their joint statement made no mention of the sanctions issue. Trump this week said he was only in the early stages of considering ending the U.S. sanctions against Russia. The sanctions should be lifted this year, Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Social Union (CDU), told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in an interview to be published on Sunday.