The European Union intends to tighten sanctions policy against Russia after the Hungarian presidency of the EU Council at the end of the year and Poland’s accession to the presidency.
As Report reports with reference to TASS, this was reported by Politico newspaper.
Warsaw has already made it clear, as the publication emphasises, that it ‘wants to use its six-month leadership [in the EU] to tighten control over Russian fuel entering the continent’. ‘Russian energy imports [are] growing <…>, we need to fix that,’ Politico quotes Poland’s deputy climate and environment minister Krzysztof Bolesta as saying.
According to diplomats and officials, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban used his country’s presidency to effectively halt the sanctions talks, the publication said. Member states are now counting on Poland to put sensitive issues back on the agenda.
‘We hope that all issues <…> will be resolved without delay,’ a senior community diplomat said. ‘We need to recognise that the sanctions regime is not working as it should – there are problems with liquefied natural gas (LNG), there are problems with oil, there are problems with certain goods,’ he added.
