Strasbourg (France), 15 Feb. The president of the Commission Europea (CE), Ursula von der Leyen, told me that the decimo package of penalties against Russia that the Unión Europea (EU) will require coincidiendo con el primer aniversario de la invasion de Ucrania will tend to a value of 11,000 millions of euros.
The sanctions the EU is discussing include restrictions on the export of “multiple electronic components” needed in Russian weapons systems, such as drones, missiles and helicopters.
The EC has also offered to sanction Iranian companies linked to the Revolutionary Guards that manufacture the drones Tehran gives to Moscow to bomb Ukraine.
“It is our duty to punish them,” Von der Leyen said in a speech to the European Parliament on the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, which will take place on February 24.
This new package also provides, as EFE has been able to learn, to appear on the sanctions list some 140 individuals – among other soldiers and those responsible for crimes committed in Ukraine – and around thirty Russian companies.
The ambassadors of the 27 to the EU will discuss again today in Brussels the new sanctions, which the European Commission has been discussing for weeks with the Member States.
(Russian President Vladimir) “Putin thought it would be easy to blackmail Europe, given our reliance on Russian oil and gas. But he was wrong about that too,” said von der Leyen, adding that “he has already lost the energy war that started”.
According to the Commission President, Russia’s revenue from the sale has been cut by two-thirds and the oil price cap the EU has agreed with G7 countries means that Moscow loses 160 million in daily revenue.
On the other hand, Von der Leyen recalled that Brussels this week raised the growth forecasts for the euro zone and the EU, to 0.9% and 0.8% respectively, while “the Kremlin must sell reserves of gold to fill the holes left by the lack of oil”. income”. ECE
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