Oil freeze, the EU awaits Putin: “Go to sanctions after his holiday”

BRUXELLES – The oil embargo still slips. Another day. Of negotiations and hopes. But above all of many doubts. Which this time have little to do with the essence of the new sanctions that Europe is about to launch against Russia. This time there is a factor neglected until yesterday: the weather. Or rather: the delay.

The EU governments, in fact, have begun to ask themselves a question: is it worth approving and communicating the sixth sanction package the day before Putin’s military parade, that is today? Should we use one of the ammunition available to the Western Front before knowing what the Kremlin Ras will do and what will announce? Questions that are prompting the Union to take a …