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Bloomberg - Russia Insider - Oct 2014 - clik 1 - clik 2 
EUA perdendo apoio: poderoso setor industrial alemão se ergue contra as sanções à Rússia.
The BDI is Germany's most powerful and prestigious business association. If they start grumbling, politicians tremble. We've been saying for months that Germany is going to fold on sanctions. Its starting to happen. Critics must stop ostracizing Putin and show more readiness to talk to salvage Germany’s economic links with Russia, said Eckhard Cordes, head of the BDI industry federation’s committee for eastern Europe. “If there is no solution to the crisis soon, the relationship of trust between business partners will erode,” said Cordes, who is a former chief executive officer of retailer Metro AG (MEO) and top executive at automaker Daimler AG. (DAI) . While the clash between Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government and his European Union and U.S. adversaries is no longer worsening, political relations are unlikely to improve any time soon, Cordes said in an interview in Berlin yesterday. Chancellor Angela Merkel is being forced to walk a tightrope between staying in sync with U.S.-led demands to be tough on Russia and minding Europe’s biggest economy as it flirts with recession. The drop in German exports to Russia will probably worsen in the latter part of the year, after falling almost 17 percent through August, Cordes said. Merkel told reporters in Brussels this morning that EU leaders “don’t see any possibility to discuss lifting sanctions at this time.” Bild-Zeitung, Germany’s largest newspaper, reported today that the chancellor told confidants that relations with Russia could normalize in the medium term provided there’s no further destabilization in eastern Ukraine and negotiations begin on the Crimean peninsula’s future.