{"id":495116,"date":"2022-05-31T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T07:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=495116"},"modified":"2022-05-31T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T07:23:18","slug":"eu-leaders-agree-to-immediate-ban-on-more-than-two-thirds-of-russian-oil-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-leaders-agree-to-immediate-ban-on-more-than-two-thirds-of-russian-oil-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"EU leaders agree to &#8216;immediate&#8217; ban on &#8216;more than two-thirds&#8217; of Russian oil imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bloc has overcome objections to a long-stalled plan to impose an oil embargo on Russia. The EU has also agreed to remove Sberbank from the SWIFT payment system.The 27 EU members agreed a new sanctions package late on Monday covering more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports to the bloc, European Council President Charles Michel announced.<\/p>\n<p>Michel said on Twitter the arrangement covers more than two-thirds of oil imports from Russia, &#8220;cutting a huge source of financing for its war machine. Maximum pressure on Russia to end the war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bloc also agreed on removing Sberbank from the SWIFT international payment system. Sberbank is Russia&#8217;s largest bank and is majority state-owned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bloc has overcome objections to a long-stalled plan to impose an oil embargo on Russia. The EU has also agreed to remove Sberbank from the SWIFT payment system.The 27 EU members agreed a new sanctions package late on Monday covering more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports to the bloc, European Council President Charles Michel announced. Michel said on Twitter the arrangement covers more than two-thirds of oil imports from Russia, &#8220;cutting a huge source of financing for its war machine. Maximum pressure on Russia to end the war.&#8221; The bloc also agreed on removing Sberbank from the SWIFT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495116","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}