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EU’s 20th Russia sanctions: Germany and Lithuania criticize Hungary; the US and G7 are cautious, the Czech Republic supports it – UPDATE
The EU’s 20th package of sanctions against Russia faces resistance on three fronts: the EU has reportedly been unable to secure the coordinated support of the United States and other G7 partners for new restrictions on Russian oil shipments, while Hungary is threatening to block the package in the EU with a separate dispute over oil shipments through Ukraine. The socialist Slovak government is halting electricity exports to Ukraine.
EU sanctions against Russia includes tougher ideas on oil shipping services
According to Anadolu, a diplomatic source in Brussels said the European Union has failed to secure support from the United States and other G7 countries for a coordinated effort to block Russian oil deliveries under its proposed 20th package of anti-Russian sanctions, a report Monday said.
The source, who spoke to the Russian state news agency Tass, said Brussels presented the proposal to Washington and other G7 capitals as part of efforts to expand restrictions targeting the transport and servicing of Russian oil shipments.
“The EU presented to the US and G7 its plan to fully prohibit European businesses from transporting Russian oil and providing any kind of maintenance, supply, financing and insurance services to tankers that transport Russian oil, no matter what flag they are flying. The European Commission invited partners to impose similar restrictions on their companies. The United States refused,” the diplomat said.
He further said that he “does not exclude the possibility of Washington imposing its own measures in due time and on its own terms.”
“Other G7 partners said that joining the EU sanctions was possible but stopped short of giving any clear promises,” the source added.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has emerged as the world’s most sanctioned nation, surpassing Iran, Syria and North Korea.
According to sanctions-tracking databases, more than 16,500 restrictive measures have been imposed on Moscow targeting individuals, entities, vessels and aircraft.
Hungary links its support to Druzhba pipeline flows
As we wrote earlier, Hungary has said it is prepared to block the 20th round of EU sanctions against Russia unless oil transit to Hungary via the Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline resumes. Shipments on the line supplying Hungary and Slovakia have been disrupted since 27 January, with Kyiv saying a Russian strike hit infrastructure, while Budapest and Bratislava blame Ukraine for failing to restore flows. Details: Hungary blocks EU sanctions package over halted Ukrainian oil deliveries
Because EU sanctions require unanimity among all 27 member states, Hungary’s stance can delay or derail the package if no compromise is found.
The Slovak government’s ultimatum expired at midnight, so today the Slovak electricity supplier will stop emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine after Ukraine failed to resume oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline.
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Unlike Hungary, Iceland seems to have no fear of warmongering by the EU and aims to join as soon as possible, also because it does not close its eyes to the threat posed by Hungary’s big brother, Trump.
Iceland could hold a referendum on reopening EU accession talks as early as August, Politico reported, citing two knowledgeable interlocutors. The country’s parliament will announce the date of the vote in the coming weeks.
The ruling coalition had promised to hold the referendum by 2027, but accelerated the deadline due to geopolitical turmoil: the imposition of U.S. duties and Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland. US ambassador candidate to Iceland Billy Long joked that the country would become the “52nd state”, and Trump mentioned Iceland four times in a speech at the Davos forum discussing Greenland.
Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos said the debate on EU enlargement was “increasingly about security and the ability to act in a world of competing spheres of influence”. European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, meeting with Iceland’s prime minister Kristun Frostadottir in Brussels, emphasized that the partnership “provides stability in an unstable world.”
Iceland applied to join the EU in 2009 at the height of the financial crisis, when all three of the country’s biggest banks collapsed. But in 2013, the government froze negotiations and in 2015 asked that its candidate status be removed.
Sociological polls show growing support for Iceland’s EU accession. Negotiations could go quickly – Iceland is part of the European Economic Area and Schengen, and before the freeze managed to close 11 of 33 negotiating points.
Thanks for flooding the site with a huge, and totally irrelevant post.
Iceland wants to become non-White?
Hard to believe.
“I do not believe it is right for Hungary to betray its’ own struggle for freedom”. Yes, but this government will betray anyone in the cause of money to line their pockets. They have spent years feeding Hungarians anti-Ukrainian propaganda because the Fidesz elite made their bargain with Putin and betrayed Europe and ultimately Hungarians themselves.
Do you even believe that slop?
If so, that’s very sad.
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German chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that Ukraine made “astonishing territorial gains” in February with Russia’s war machine “creaking under the weight of sanctions and of warfare”. (Ukraine recovered 400sq km of land and eight settlements) “(Russia), under this leadership, is currently at the lowest point of utter barbarity, and no one should have any doubt about what kind of regime and barbarity we are dealing with out of Russia these days,” he said. Oh but Fidesz wanted Russians to carry Hungary’s flag at the Olympic closing ceremonies. The Polish foreign minister accused Hungary of a shocking lack of solidarity with Ukraine. Hungary is so far gone into a Russian pit of anti-Ukrainian propaganda that that statement is almost comical.
Now you know, why the Hungarian public hates Mertz, Weber, Ursula and the Polish government.
You just continue to support Nazi Germany’s Empire (EU) invading Russia again.
We had enough the first round.
But when the USA’s deathtoll (not Europes, tge USA’s) reaches 20 million, you will understand my position.
There are many many tens of millions of Americans who not only would understand the opinion of your countrymen, Dear Márk, they would heartily endorse it.
Look at what the EU has done to Europe. Their pro mass migration policies have destroyed countries. Trusting the EU, and any candidate aligned with them, is the WORST possible move Hungary can make. Stay sovereign! Stay free!
Yes, Dear Csilla -all true, and yet you have to know that The Modern Left only loves authoritarianism under the guise of democracy, war-mongering in the name of peace, censorship in the name of Free Speech, and your countrymen being replaced by strangers in the name of national security.
I am old enough to think that The Modern Left reminds me of one of my wife’s science fiction novel from the 1970s.
Have you read The Stepford Wives?
The men in that novel wanted to do to their wives what The Modern Left wants to do to their fellow countrymen.
Sometimes I think the posts of the Club of International Reactionaries (consisting of a single member) are copied from a horror novel. On second glance, however, I realize they are so uniquely insane and simultaneously so ludicrous that no one else could possibly come up with them. They possess a bizarre, comical quality, and without intending to, these horrific images immediately make you burst out laughing. You can’t stop, even though they depict the dark inner life of a lonely, misunderstood, and deeply suffering genius.
I showed some of the posts to acquaintances, who couldn’t contain themselves and nearly collapsed with laughter. Since laughter is healthy, I would like to express my sincere gratitude for these posts and urge him to open his treasure trove and publish many more. I eagerly await each installment.
No satire or horror film could achieve this. Of course, those who already have horror in their heads can easily project it outward into reality. Those who are pursued by evil forces naturally see these specters everywhere in reality. In this, they are far superior to “normal” people. Our genius is a common man’s E.T.A. Hoffmann. Where Hoffmann unfolds the tension between realism and fantasy against the backdrop of a romanticized psychiatric setting, our hero echoes and reflects the mind of Jack the Ripper. “Normal” people could never accomplish something like that. Great, keep it up! I’m already looking forward to the next post!