Despite numerous consultations and a meeting of Member States’ ambassadors to the EU, on Sunday 8 May, no agreement has yet to be reached on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia. The issue of the oil embargo is still blocked.
According to an EU source, while “very good progress” has been made on most of the measures, Member States still need to finalise the necessary guarantees for oil supplies to those Member States that are linked only to a Russian pipeline.
“Contacts at...