BERLIN (Reuters) - A senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has warned leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras not to use his de facto veto over an extension of sanctions against Russia as a bargaining chip in talks over Greece's bail-out programme.
"Any attempt to connect these two policy fields has to be stopped before its starts," Norbert Roettgen, chairman of the parliament's foreign policy committee, told Reuters on Thursday.
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