{"id":477267,"date":"2022-03-22T09:20:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T03:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=477267"},"modified":"2022-03-22T09:53:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:23:29","slug":"eu-must-impose-sanctions-on-russian-oil-ministers-tell-divided-bloc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-must-impose-sanctions-on-russian-oil-ministers-tell-divided-bloc\/","title":{"rendered":"EU must impose sanctions on Russian oil, ministers tell divided bloc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union should step up sanctions on Russia to target its lucrative energy sector, the foreign ministers of Lithuania and Ireland said on Monday at the start of a week of intense diplomacy aimed at agreeing more steps against Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union and its Western allies have already imposed a panoply of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, including freezing its central bank&#8217;s assets.<\/p>\n<p>The humanitarian crisis in the besieged port city of Mariupol is increasing pressure on Europe to do more. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking at the extent of the destruction in Ukraine right now, it&#8217;s very hard to make the case that we shouldn&#8217;t be moving in on the energy sector,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union should step up sanctions on Russia to target its lucrative energy sector, the foreign ministers of Lithuania and Ireland said on Monday at the start of a week of intense diplomacy aimed at agreeing more steps against Moscow. The European Union and its Western allies have already imposed a panoply of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, including freezing its central bank&#8217;s assets. The humanitarian crisis in the besieged port city of Mariupol is increasing pressure on Europe to do more. &#8220;Looking at the extent of the destruction in Ukraine right now, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}