Ursula von den Leyen accoglie il disegno di legge del Senato degli Stati Uniti per sanzionare la Russia.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06/02/ursula-von-der-leyen-backs-bone-crushing-us-senate-bill-to-sanction-russia
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500% tariff on any country that deals with russian gas / oil
On an EU context what does it mean? Because based on recent the CREA report we are still pretty much in deep shit in that regards.
12 billion EUR worth of oil and LNG still goes to western europe, and in via pipelines 14 billion towards eastern europe.
In some cases (Hungary, Slovakia) it is business as usual, but EU members can’t be tariffed individually.
>As of today, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal buy Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG); Italy, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria buy Russian pipeline gas; and Hungary and Slovakia buy Russian pipeline oil.
>Additionally, five countries – Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Finland – operate [**Russian-made nuclear reactors**](https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/02/14/kyiv-wants-sanctions-on-russias-nuclear-sector-but-for-the-eu-the-stakes-are-too-high) that rely on specific Russian-made fuels.
I don’t know about the rest, but the information on Bulgaria here is incorrect. Russia stopped exporting gas to Bulgaria in 2022. It hasn’t started since then.
[https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-bulgaria-face-russian-gas-cut-ukraine-crisis-escalates-2022-04-26/](https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-bulgaria-face-russian-gas-cut-ukraine-crisis-escalates-2022-04-26/)
Russian gas flows through Bulgaria via the Balkan Stream pipeline, but Bulgaria does not have the right to tap into it (and the pipeline itself doesn’t even have the technical capability to export gas to Bulgaria). This is just a transit pipeline, and Bulgaria is a transit country. The gas goes through us to Serbia, Hungary, and Austria. Halting this gas won’t have an impact on Bulgaria.
Regarding the nuclear reactor fuel, the article is again wrong. Bulgaria imported nuclear fuel from Russia until 2024 when we switched to imports from the US (Westinghouse) and France (Framatom). Sources in Bulgarian:
[https://dariknews.bg/novini/bylgariia/v-aec-kozloduj-pristigna-pyrvata-dostavka-na-iadreno-gorivo-ot-uestinghaus-2381433](https://dariknews.bg/novini/bylgariia/v-aec-kozloduj-pristigna-pyrvata-dostavka-na-iadreno-gorivo-ot-uestinghaus-2381433)
[https://news.bg/energy/ot-2025-aets-kozloduy-shte-poluchava-frensko-yadreno-gorivo.html](https://news.bg/energy/ot-2025-aets-kozloduy-shte-poluchava-frensko-yadreno-gorivo.html)
Sanctions are pure self-congratulation. What really helps Ukraine is arms deliveries.
The idea that Agent Orange would ever do anything against his boss is ridiculous.
Every move favoring Kiev only solidifies my view Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a true and fair response to a real and immediate existential threat.