Von der Leyen wants to kill the Nord Stream gas pipeline and cap the price of Russian oil.

BrusselsMore sanctions from the European Union against Russia. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen officially proposed this Tuesday to put an end to gas transactions between the European Union and Russia via the Nord Stream I and II pipelines, reduce the price of oil, and, among other things, increase restrictions on Russian banking.

Specifically, the EU executive proposes lowering the crude oil price cap from $60 per barrel to $45 and assures that it intends to agree on this with the G-7. In other words, it expects the United States to support it, just as it did under Joe Biden. However, so far, Donald Trump has given no signs of wanting to increase sanctions in the Kremlin.

Brussels also proposes to ban all transactions between Russia and the European Union via the Nord Stream gas pipelines, although the former was sabotaged and the latter has never been put into operation. In fact, European Foreign Minister Kaja Kallas has stated that the intention is to "send a clear signal that they will not return to normal" and "will not be used as before."

Along the same lines, the community executive wants to increase sanctions against the so-called ghost fleet Russian ships, which are dedicated to secretly transporting fossil fuels to avoid European sanctions.In this way, the EU would add 77 Russian vessels to the blacklist, adding to the 342 currently targeted by the bloc. This type of transaction. It also wants to extend these restrictions to more Russian financial institutions and expand the blacklist to include another 22 banks, in addition to prohibiting exports worth more than €2.5 billion involving critical products or dual-use technologies (civil and military) for these missions. This will put even more pressure on Vladimir Putin to finally accept a ceasefire. This will be the eighteenth since the war broke out in Ukraine. However, for it to go ahead, it must have the approval of the member states, and both Hungary and Slovakia, governed by pro-Putin leaders, have already put obstacles in the way of processing the latest sanctions packages against the Kremlin and have threatened a threat. Moscow.