Unlike sanctions, which require unanimity from all EU countries, the proposal \u2014 billed as a trade measure \u2014 only needs a qualified majority of capitals to approve it, effectively removing Hungary and Slovakia\u2019s veto power over the draft law.<\/p>\n
On Monday, EU energy ministers will rubber-stamp the bill, sending a signal that they are ready to override both nations before they enter final negotiations with the European Parliament.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll reach an agreement despite their opposition,\u201d said one senior EU diplomat, who, like others for this story, was granted anonymity to speak freely on closed-door discussions. \u201cIt\u2019s not an easy subject, but I believe we\u2019ll get there.\u201d<\/p>\n Landlocked, not blocked<\/p>\n In the run-up to the vote, the two countries have pulled out all the stops in a bid to scupper a deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In fact, the two countries are steadily increasing their fossil fuel payments to Moscow, according to Isaac Levi,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[331,3854,23433,35,3975,25833,1214,7159,39,1450,2190,475,806,6084,660,2441,11665,2661,15857,41279,2343,6566,1438,332,2663,811,2558,1201,657,333,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-513299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-coal","10":"tag-economic-performance","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-energy-security","13":"tag-energy-supply","14":"tag-exports","15":"tag-fossil-fuels","16":"tag-fuels","17":"tag-greece","18":"tag-hungary","19":"tag-imports","20":"tag-industry","21":"tag-infrastructure","22":"tag-kremlin","23":"tag-markets","24":"tag-meps","25":"tag-oil","26":"tag-pipelines","27":"tag-repowereu","28":"tag-research","29":"tag-robert-fico","30":"tag-romania","31":"tag-russia","32":"tag-sanctions","33":"tag-security","34":"tag-slovakia","35":"tag-trade","36":"tag-ukraine","37":"tag-vladimir-putin","38":"tag-war","39":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115404110857750946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513299","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=513299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2240953337-1024x729.jpg\")
Since Vladimir Putin first ordered troops into Kyiv, Brussels has slapped an embargo on Russian crude, fuel and coal entering the bloc; it\u2019s imposed a $47.60 per barrel price limit on Moscow\u2019s global oil sales, <\/strong>below the market rate; and it\u2019s whittled down the Kremlin\u2019s share in the EU\u2019s gas market from 45 percent to 13 percent.\u00a0 | Contributor\/Getty Images<\/p>\n