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The West had promised "massive" sanctions in the event of an invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
After individual measures, and Berlin's blocking of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on Tuesday, they are therefore up against the wall, forced to sacrifice at least part of the post-Covid economic recovery.
Meeting at an extraordinary summit in Brussels, the Heads of State and Government of the Twenty-Seven were to give their political green light to a second set of sanctions in the evening.
Before the meeting of the leaders, the President of the Commission had described in broad strokes the contours of this new package at the end of a meeting at NATO.
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It "
will include financial sanctions that severely limit Russia's access to capital markets
", she said.
It also proposed to "
cut off the Russian technology industry
", from high-tech components to cutting-edge software.
According to “VDL”, these sanctions would both suffocate the economy…
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