{"id":489207,"date":"2022-05-05T09:26:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T03:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=489207"},"modified":"2022-05-05T10:13:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T04:43:58","slug":"european-union-leader-calls-for-russian-oil-ban-in-new-set-of-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/european-union-leader-calls-for-russian-oil-ban-in-new-set-of-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union leader calls for Russian oil ban in new set of sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s leader on Wednesday called on the 27-nation bloc to ban oil imports from Russia in a sixth package of sanctions targeting Moscow for its war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also proposed that Sberbank, Russia&#8217;s largest bank, and two other major banks be disconnected from the SWIFT international banking payment system.<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen, addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, called on the EU&#8217;s member nations to phase out imports of crude oil within six months and refined products by the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s leader on Wednesday called on the 27-nation bloc to ban oil imports from Russia in a sixth package of sanctions targeting Moscow for its war in Ukraine. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also proposed that Sberbank, Russia&#8217;s largest bank, and two other major banks be disconnected from the SWIFT international banking payment system. Von der Leyen, addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, called on the EU&#8217;s member nations to phase out imports of crude oil within six months and refined products by the end of the year.<\/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-489207","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\/489207","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=489207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}