A month ahead of highly anticipated elections in Italy, the outspoken leader of the country’s populist Northern League party, Matteo Salvini, is calling on the EU to reassess sanctions imposed on Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in February. “I’m asking that we evaluate the effectiveness of these instruments,” Mr. Salvini said in an article for Rome’s La Repubblica, adding: “If they are working, fine, but if they hit the sanctioning countries more than Russia … they will stoke the war rather than promoting peace.”