The chief EU commissioner's blind ambition to punish third countries for dealing with Russia risks hurting the European Union's international standing and alienating trade partners, former German lawmaker Armin-Paulus Hampel told Sputnik

The former chef of Austrian car manufacturer Magna Steyr and ex-chairman of the board of directors of Russian automotive company GAZ Group, Siegfried Wolf, expressed his willingness to continue producing cars in Russia with the assistance of the Russian government, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Friday