{"id":1300376,"date":"2025-10-02T10:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/von-der-leyen-eu-moving-towards-tougher-sanctions-against-russia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:40:46","slug":"von-der-leyen-eu-moving-towards-tougher-sanctions-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/von-der-leyen-eu-moving-towards-tougher-sanctions-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen: EU moving towards tougher sanctions against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The European Union plans to significantly increase pressure on Russia by introducing a new sanctions package that will affect three key areas at once &#8211; energy, financial services, and trade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after the informal EU summit in Copenhagen. She published the corresponding statement on the social network X.<\/p>\n<p> According to her, Brussels is moving away from the phased introduction of restrictions and instead moving towards a tougher format of sanctions pressure.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We are no longer proposing gradual measures. We are advocating for much stricter restrictions in the areas of energy, finance and trade,&#8221; von der Leyen said.<\/p>\n<p> This concerns the preparation of the 19th sanctions package, which is currently under discussion among EU member states.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sanktsiyna-pastka-dlia-rf-yevrosoiuz-mozhe-zatverdyty-novi-obmezhennia-nayblyzhchymy-dniamy\/\">the European Union may agree on new sanctions against Russia in the coming days<\/a> . This is the 19th package of restrictions, which is being prepared in response to the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, the European Union is preparing another \u2014 already strengthened \u2014 package of sanctions against Russia, which will cover key areas: energy, financial services, and international trade. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yes-planuie-sanktsiynyy-proryv-chym-vdariat-po-rosii-tsoho-razu\/\"><\/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>The European Union plans to significantly increase pressure on Russia by introducing a new sanctions package that will affect three key areas at once &#8211; energy, financial services, and trade. This was announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after the informal EU summit in Copenhagen. She published the corresponding statement on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1232453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1300376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300376","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=1300376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}