{"id":489295,"date":"2022-05-05T09:57:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T04:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=489295"},"modified":"2022-05-05T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T05:25:59","slug":"european-union-plans-phased-oil-ban-on-russia-also-targeting-more-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/european-union-plans-phased-oil-ban-on-russia-also-targeting-more-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union plans phased oil ban on Russia, also targeting more banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s chief executive on Wednesday proposed a phased oil embargo on Russia over its war in Ukraine, as well as sanctioning Russia\u2019s top bank and banning Russian broadcasters from European airwaves, in a bid to deepen Moscow\u2019s isolation.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, if agreed by EU governments, would mark a watershed for the world\u2019s largest trading bloc, which is dependent on Russian energy and must find alternative supplies.<\/p>\n<p>But Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine by land, sea and air on February 24, the renewed Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine and the horrific images of slaughter in Ukrainian towns have overcome reluctance to deliver the toughest sanctions so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s chief executive on Wednesday proposed a phased oil embargo on Russia over its war in Ukraine, as well as sanctioning Russia\u2019s top bank and banning Russian broadcasters from European airwaves, in a bid to deepen Moscow\u2019s isolation. The plan, if agreed by EU governments, would mark a watershed for the world\u2019s largest trading bloc, which is dependent on Russian energy and must find alternative supplies. But Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine by land, sea and air on February 24, the renewed Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine and the horrific images of slaughter in Ukrainian towns have overcome reluctance [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489295","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=489295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}