{"id":494930,"date":"2022-05-31T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T03:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=494930"},"modified":"2022-05-31T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:15:11","slug":"eu-wrestles-with-russia-oil-embargo-as-leaders-gather-for-ukraine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-wrestles-with-russia-oil-embargo-as-leaders-gather-for-ukraine-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"EU wrestles with Russia oil embargo as leaders gather for Ukraine aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Union leaders will gather Monday in a new show of solidarity with Ukraine, but divisions over whether to target Russian oil in a new series of sanctions are exposing the limits of how far the bloc can go to help the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who will address the 27 heads of state and government by videoconference in the evening, has repeatedly demanded that the EU target Russia&#8217;s lucrative energy sector and deprive Moscow of billions of dollars each day in supply payments.<\/p>\n<p>But Hungary is leading a group of countries along with Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria that rely on Russian oil and can&#8217;t afford to take such steps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union leaders will gather Monday in a new show of solidarity with Ukraine, but divisions over whether to target Russian oil in a new series of sanctions are exposing the limits of how far the bloc can go to help the war-torn country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who will address the 27 heads of state and government by videoconference in the evening, has repeatedly demanded that the EU target Russia&#8217;s lucrative energy sector and deprive Moscow of billions of dollars each day in supply payments. But Hungary is leading a group of countries along with Slovakia, the Czech Republic [&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-494930","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\/494930","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=494930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}