EU Effort to Toughen Russia Sanctions Stalls as Austria Digs In
The shadow-fleet tanker Turbo Voyager, right, passes within 600 meters of a general cargo vessel as it transits through the Great Belt of Denmark on Aug. 15. 2024.
Photographer: Carsten Snejbjerg/Bloomberg
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The EU has been tightening the economic screws on Moscow through a series of sanctions packages since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. But as our team reported overnight, the bloc’s 19th sanctions bundle has hit a snag.