German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has called for the rapid adoption of the European Union’s proposed new sanctions package against Russia, even as Berlin is being accused of holding up its passage. “For the German government it is absolutely clear that we as the European Union must continue to maintain the pressure of sanctions against Russia,” she said at a meeting of Baltic state foreign ministers in Finland on Friday. She said the German Foreign Office was working “flat out” to try get a consensus on the next round of sanctions. For the first time, the EU plans to impose strict sanc…