Currently, it is important to achieve unanimous support from all EU member states to ban Russian metal products, said the letter signed by Josep Borrell.
The European Union agrees that the ban on Russian metal products should be extended, and relevant work is already underway. People’s Deputy Alexey Goncharenko reported this on Telegram on Thursday, July 25.
According to him, earlier he and his fellow PACE deputies addressed the EU leadership with a response call.
“We received a response to our letter from the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell He said that he fully agrees: all metal products from the aggressor country , without exception, should be banned, and it is doing the job,” Goncharenko wrote.
In particular, in the letter, Borrell said that he fully agrees with the representatives’ proposal to completely stop the import of Russian metal products to the EU.
“It is important to continue to find ways to further control Russian financial flows. Due to the decision-making process in the Union, especially in foreign and security policy, it is important to achieve unanimous support from all member states .Now, to achieve this threshold, the various positions must be agreed upon.
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We remind you that on December 18, the European Union announced the 12th package of sanctions against Russia. Within its limits, the quotas for Russian slabs were extended for another four years. The total import quota for these products from October 2024 to September 2028 is set at 8.5 million tons.
Previous sanctions on the import of slabs were introduced in October last year, as part of the 8th package of sanctions: then it was decided that it could continue until the end of September 2024 within the established quota, and from October 1, 2024, imports will stop. However, the 12th package of sanctions actually weakens the previously introduced restrictions.
In turn, the representatives of the three countries – Ukraine, Poland and Estonia – appealed to the EU to act more harshly, and work not only to introduce new sanctions, but also to tighten the existing ones.
Source: korrespondent
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