{"id":384404,"date":"2025-08-30T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384404\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:04:09","slug":"german-and-french-leaders-push-for-secondary-sanctions-on-russian-backers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384404\/","title":{"rendered":"German and French leaders push for secondary sanctions on Russian backers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron called for secondary sanctions aimed at undermining Russia\u2019s war machine, increasing pressure on Moscow as U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s peace efforts sputter.<\/p>\n<p>To hamper Moscow\u2019s abilities to raise money from oil sales, Europe\u2019s two biggest economies will push for measures targeting &#8220;companies from third countries that support Russia\u2019s war,\u201d according to a joint statement on Friday after a meeting of German and French cabinet members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to exert pressure for additional sanctions to be imposed by ourselves \u2014 and we are prepared to do so \u2014 but also by the U.S., to force Russia to return to the negotiating table,\u201d Macron said alongside Merz at a news conference at Fort du Cap Brun near the Mediterranean port city of Toulon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron called for secondary sanctions aimed at undermining Russia\u2019s war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[34,2000,299,36,1945,1824,332,7661,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-384404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-friedrich-merz","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","16":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115116209901102895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}