Seventeen leaders of EU member states, among which only Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev is still in office, wrote to President-elect Donald Trump asking him not to improve relations with Russia.
The 17 mostly Eastern European leaders include former Romanian President Traian Băsescu, ex-Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, the former Presidents of Latvia and Estonia Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga and Toomas Hendrik Ilves. All are affiliated with the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP).
