{"id":417472,"date":"2025-09-12T03:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417472\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:49:12","slug":"trump-finally-wants-to-put-the-squeeze-on-russia-now-comes-the-hard-part-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417472\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump finally wants to put the squeeze on Russia. Now comes the hard part. \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-eyes-further-tariffs-on-russia-to-squeeze-putins-war-chest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent discussion paper<\/a> floated by the Danish presidency of the Council of the EU, seen by POLITICO, explored whether capitals would be open to imposing tariffs on Moscow as part of the bloc&#8217;s 19th sanctions package. That idea, according to several diplomats briefed on the talks, won little traction among ministers when it was discussed last month. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pump for Trump<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. president has also called on Europe to stop buying Russian fossil fuels \u2014 the Kremlin uses the proceeds to pay for its tanks and troops \u2014 providing helpful leverage to EU leaders already pushing for a total end to imports from the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Energy Secretary Chris Wright landed in Brussels for meetings on Thursday, where he hoped to cement the details of an agreement struck between Trump and von der Leyen for the bloc to buy an additional $750 billion worth of American gas, oil and nuclear fuel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are ambitious energy import targets,\u201d Wright told reporters on a conference call. \u201cCertainly the U.S. can supply that, but that\u2019s a framework that\u2019s expecting energy trade to grow significantly from our country &#8230; the U.S.\u2019s liquefied natural gas exports growing to displace the rest of Russian natural gas that is still imported into Europe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference following the meeting with his American counterpart, Energy Commissioner Dan J\u00f8rgensen said he intended to accelerate the bloc\u2019s commitment to end all imports of Russian natural gas by the end of 2027 \u2014 potentially bringing the deadline forward if it can be agreed as part of a compromise with member countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have put forward a proposal to ban the import of Russian gas,\u201d he said. \u201cFor that to &#8230; happen in a way that doesn\u2019t lead to increases in prices and security of supply problems in Europe, we need help from our American friends. We need to import more LNG from the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from being a major commercial opportunity for the U.S., the proposal also gives Brussels a stronger hand in dealing with Kremlin-friendly countries like Hungary and Slovakia, which have been holding out against the plans to sever ties with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent discussion paper floated by the Danish presidency of the Council of the EU, seen by POLITICO,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[1395,38231,32,35,2000,299,1214,7159,39,2190,475,730,660,12270,5443,5436,2661,332,2663,811,2558,479,1201,657,49,1220,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-417472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-dan-jorgensen","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-exports","15":"tag-fossil-fuels","16":"tag-fuels","17":"tag-hungary","18":"tag-imports","19":"tag-india","20":"tag-kremlin","21":"tag-liquefied-natural-gas","22":"tag-lng","23":"tag-natural-gas","24":"tag-oil","25":"tag-russia","26":"tag-sanctions","27":"tag-security","28":"tag-slovakia","29":"tag-tariffs","30":"tag-trade","31":"tag-ukraine","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","34":"tag-war","35":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115189289072103223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417472","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=417472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}