After the atrocities committed by the Russian army in Bantha, Ukraine, the ambassadors of the twenty-seven with the EU should adopt a new packet of sanctions against Moscow on Wednesday.
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The atrocities committed by the Russian army in Bantha, Ukraine, have quickly moved the lines within the Western camp. While the United States and Canada announced new sanctions against Moscow, Paris and Berlin decided on Monday 4 April to follow a move started from last week in several European Union countries (EU) by expelling massively Russian diplomats suspected of espionage. Thirty-five of them will leave France because of “their activities contrary to the [country] interest”, about forty others will leave from Germany because they would represent a threat to people looking for protection , said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalya Baerbock.
Lithuania has announced the expulsion of the Ambassador of Russia and the reminder of his ambassador to Moscow. Spain seized, in Palma de Mallorca, the yacht of the Viktor Vekselberg Oligarch, targeted by American sanctions – but not European at this point. Finland agreed with three Russian ships in charge of the European sanctions, while Poland advocated a prohibition of visas for all Russian citizens, a measure that Warsaw hopes to discuss the European level.
Before the last weekend, the twenty-seven prepared a fifth packet of sanctions, which, for example, aim at the prohibition of exports to Russia of certain technological goods and to stop imports within L ‘Union of some Russian materials, but also predict the gel of assets for new oligarchs or relatives of Vladimir Putin, as well as for companies, including banks.
Add an energy component to sanctions
During the weekend, the capitals and the Commission – to which it is necessary to propose sanctions which must then be endorsed by the Member States – have conceald to determine whether it was possible to increase the measures and To add them an energy pane, or if it should take a little more time. Monday 4th of April in the morning, on France Inter , Emmanuel Macron said “favorable” to the EU decides an embargo on Russian oil and coal.
Finally, Monday, April 4, it seemed acquired that the Europeans were ready to take a first step, by deciding a coal embargo. There was to be decided when the measurement would apply precisely, while boats were already en route to European ports and that the interruption of certain contracts requires a transition period.
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