{"id":7702,"date":"2022-04-21T18:31:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T18:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2022-04-21T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T18:31:43","slug":"eu-closes-in-on-russian-oil-ban-but-how-tough-will-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7702","title":{"rendered":"EU closes in on Russian oil ban \u2014 but how tough will it be?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;An immediate, full-blown ban imposed by the EU on oil is still a no-go for economic powerhouse Germany. Berlin has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/pressure-mounts-on-berlin-to-block-russian-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicated<\/a>&nbsp;to other EU capitals it\u2019s ready to consider cutting Russian oil \u2014 even if it is not yet able to abandon imports of gas \u2014 but only under specific conditions, which are now being discussed with the European Commission.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-closes-in-on-russian-oil-ban-vladimir-putin-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-closes-in-on-russian-oil-ban-vladimir-putin-ukraine\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An immediate, full-blown ban imposed by the EU on oil is still a no-go for economic powerhouse Germany. Berlin has indicated to other EU capitals it\u2019s ready to consider cutting Russian oil \u2014 even if it is not yet able to abandon imports of gas \u2014 but only under specific conditions, which are now being discussed with the European Commission.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,217,165,728,923,1218,727,1545,576,1265,315,1001,226,311,158],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-gas","tag-germany","tag-invasion","tag-oil","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-trade","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7703,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions\/7703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}