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Oil reprisal

The European Union is poised to tighten its screws on Russia with the decision to impose an embargo on Russian oil after weeks of intensive talks.

EU plans to ban Russian oil imports by the end of 2022

“Let us be clear, it will not be easy,” Ms. von der Leyen told European deputies at the parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, France. “Some member states are strongly dependent on Russian oil. But we simply have to work on it.”

Russian ‘blackmail’

A geopolitical conflict has assumed the character of an economic war with the European Union accusing Russia of “blackmail” in the context of Gazprom’s move to halt gas supplies to some European customers.