{"id":1258436,"date":"2025-07-09T20:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/estonia-will-block-the-18th-package-of-eu-sanctions-against-russia-what-is-the-reason\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:29:56","slug":"estonia-will-block-the-18th-package-of-eu-sanctions-against-russia-what-is-the-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/estonia-will-block-the-18th-package-of-eu-sanctions-against-russia-what-is-the-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia Set to Block EU\u2019s 18th Sanctions Package Against Russia: What\u2019s Behind the Move?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Estonia Threatens to Block EU\u2019s 18th Sanctions Package Against Russia Over Exclusion of New Oil Price Cap.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/rus.err.ee\/1609741515\/jestonija-mozhet-zablokirovat-novyj-sankcionnyj-paket-es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was stated by<\/a> Estonian Foreign Minister Margusa Tsahkna, ERR reports.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"165\">\u201cWe have a very clear stance: the reduction of the oil price ceiling must be included in this sanctions package. Our position on this issue is firm,\u201d Tsahkna stated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"285\">He emphasized that lowering the price of Russian oil would be the most effective element of the new sanctions package.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"287\" data-end=\"427\">According to him, the proposed reduction from the current $60 to $45 per barrel was already part of the European Commission\u2019s initial draft.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"641\">Tsahkna underscored that Estonia supports adopting the sanctions package exactly as proposed by the European Commission. He opposed attempts by some countries to weaken the package by excluding the new price cap.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"643\" data-end=\"831\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The Estonian Foreign Minister also reminded that the current $60 price ceiling has been in place for two years and has not been lowered due to a lack of support from major Western countries.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/novi-sanktsii-proty-rf-ta-pokuptsiv-rosiyskykh-enerhonosiiv-koly-ikh-rozghlianut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senator Lindsey Graham&#8217;s bill to strengthen sanctions against Russia will be submitted to the US Parliament for consideration on Wednesday, July 9<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/naftovi-dokhody-ta-tinovi-skhemy-rosii-yes-anonsuvav-zhorstki-sanktsii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the EU is preparing a new, unprecedentedly tough package of sanctions against Russia \u2014 the initiative was proposed by France and is being implemented in cooperation with American senators<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia Threatens to Block EU\u2019s 18th Sanctions Package Against Russia Over Exclusion of New Oil Price Cap. This was stated by Estonian Foreign Minister Margusa Tsahkna, ERR reports. \u201cWe have a very clear stance: the reduction of the oil price ceiling must be included in this sanctions package. Our position on this issue is firm,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1258425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76892],"class_list":["post-1258436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258545,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258436\/revisions\/1258545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1258425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}