BRITISH solidarity campaigners have slammed new EU sanctions imposed on Venezuela.

Venezuela Solidarity Campaign secretary Francisco Dominguez called Brussels’s emulation of US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the country “highly regrettable.”

He said the EU, “instead of positively encouraging the dialogue with Venezuela’s right-wing opposition initiated by President Maduro,” had instead “decided to capitulate to Trump’s approach and impose sanctions against Venezuela, which it explicitly presents as political blackmail.