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Reuters reports that the EU member state minister of Foreign Minister conducted a closed -door discussion on Russia's sanctions on Monday.A senior EU senior diplomat said: "We are developing the fifth round of sanctions and put forward many new names."This week, a series of summits will be held with the US President Biden to discuss the reaction of the West to the Russia and Ukraine War. At that time, the European Union will consider whether it will implement oil embargo against Russia.
Reuters reports that the EU member state Minister of Foreign Minister conducts a closed -door discussion on Russia's sanctions on Monday.A senior EU senior diplomat said: "We are developing the fifth round of sanctions and put forward many new names."(G7) Leaders' emergency summit, and the European Commission Summit.On Friday, he would transfer to Warsaw to meet with President Da Da and discuss Ukraine's humanity and human rights crisis.
In order to force Russian President Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine, the European Union has imposed four rounds of sanctions on Russia, but so far the Kremlin has continued to continue its military operations on Ukraine.
This makes the European Union have to consider imitating the United States and Britain and impose sanctions on the oil industry of Russia.Because it depends on Russia's natural gas, it is a difficult choice for the European Union.
Different from the EU's internal opinions.It is reported that the Baltic countries, including Lithuania, believe that the implementation of the embargo on oil implementation is the next step.Germany warned that, given that European energy prices are already high, the European Union should not act lightly.Bulgaria, who almost rely entirely on Russia's supply of natural gas, said it may not participate in sanctions against Russian energy.
Russian Fang said that if you start or turn off the European natural gas pipeline
Moscow's words, if the EU starts with Russia, the Russia may closeA main channel for supplying natural gas to Europe.The EU has 40%of natural gas imported from Russia, while Germany is one of the most relying on Russian natural gas, and it is also the largest Russian crude oil buyer in the European Union.
Due to the consensus of the EU sanctions decision -making, the attitude of the EU's rotating chairman, the attitude of France, may play a key role.French President Macron previously said that if the situation in Ukraine has deteriorated, the EU should not have any "taboos" in sanctions on Russia.
Some diplomats pointed out that if Russia uses chemical weapons in Ukraine or bombarded the capital Kiev, this may become a trigger point for the EU's embargo on Russia's energy.
According to three sources quoted by Bloomberg, EU officials are also exploring the possibility of using the assets of the Russian rich in Ukraine.It is reported that the discussion is still in the early stages, and the possibility is to use these assets to pay war compensation.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, the European Union sanctions dozens of Russian tycoon, and some EU countries have frozen related assets, including bank accounts, private planes, yachts and real estate.Among them, France frozen Russian oligarch's 850 million euros (about 1.27 billion yuan) assets in its territory, and Italy also frozen about 780 million euros assets.
