They got there in the end.
The EU will lower the price cap on Russian oil and impose additional sanctions on Moscow after Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico dropped his opposition to the latest package.
“The EU just approved one of its strongest sanctions package against Russia to date,” the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, wrote Friday morning on X.
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The approved measures restrict Russian banks’ access to transactions, target 105 “shadow fleet” ships used to evade sanctions and ban any transactions related to the Nord Stream pipelines.
