{"id":1294483,"date":"2025-09-19T14:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-european-commission-has-approved-a-new-package-of-sanctions-against-russia\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:01:32","slug":"the-european-commission-has-approved-a-new-package-of-sanctions-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-european-commission-has-approved-a-new-package-of-sanctions-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Commission has approved a new package of sanctions against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Friday, September 20, the European Commission officially approved a new, 19th package of sanctions against the Russian Federation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/sep\/19\/eu-sanctions-russia-oil-ukraine-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskyy-donald-trump-france-macron-europe-live-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was announced by<\/a> European Commission spokeswoman Paula Pinho at a briefing in Brussels, The Guardian reports.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I can confirm that the Commission has today approved the 19th package of sanctions against the Russian Federation,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p> Details of the restrictions will be made public later today, announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaia Kallas.<\/p>\n<p> The new sanctions are expected to affect the sectors of the economy, defense technologies, finance, as well as participants in the Russian military and political vertical.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yevrokomisiia-vidklala-19-y-paket-sanktsiy-proty-rf-iaki-prychyny-rishennia\/\">the progress of the next round of restrictions against Russia has unexpectedly slowed down in Brussels.<\/a> The 19th package of sanctions, which was supposed to be presented on September 17, has been removed from the agenda. The European Commission has not yet announced a new date.<\/p>\n<p> As reported later, European Commission spokeswoman Paula Pinheau commented on reports by some media outlets about the alleged postponement of the presentation of restrictive measures and <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-yevrokomisii-zaperechyly-zatrymku-novoho-paketa-sanktsiy-proty-rosii\/\">denied information about a delay in preparing a new package of sanctions against Russia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> By the way, it is expected <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yevrokomisiia-predstavyt-19-y-paket-sanktsiy-proty-rosii-koly-i-iaki-osoblyvosti-obmezhen\/\">to cover the financial sector, cryptocurrency transactions and energy, continuing the policy of reducing dependence on Russian resources<\/a> . The presentation of the restrictions may take place as early as September 19, but Brussels officially declares only \u201cswift adoption.\u201d<\/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>On Friday, September 20, the European Commission officially approved a new, 19th package of sanctions against the Russian Federation. This was announced by European Commission spokeswoman Paula Pinho at a briefing in Brussels, The Guardian reports. &#8220;I can confirm that the Commission has today approved the 19th package of sanctions against the Russian Federation,&#8221; she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1246615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885,76892],"class_list":["post-1294483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294483","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1246615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}