The European Commission (EC) does not rule out any sanction against Russia for the war in Ukraine, but is not currently studying a blockade of Russian gas, according to the European Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, for whom, although the conflict will not be won with sanctions, the six EC packages will have “a devastating effect on the Russian economy and power”.
“The official position of the EC is that there are no sanctions off the table. But today we are not talking about a gas blockade. The issue is to hit Russia, but without harming us too much,” says Gentiloni in an interview that post this saturday