#Russia_Sanctions: Today's FAC meeting did not bring the sixth energy package to fruition. Borrel has been quite dissatisfied when responding to journalists. He underlined the following: 1) Serbia is the only candidate state in the Western Balkans that does not align ⤵️
with the EU's foreign policy on Russian sanctions; 2) The EU does not have a cost compensation mechanism for the adherence to the sanctions of North Macedonia, which, on the other hand, has requested macro-financial assistance; ⤵️
3) Hungary's opposition against Russian Patriarch Kirill's sanction and the oil embargo are not interconnected. However, the deadlock in the adoption of new sanctions is related only/mainly to oil; 4) The Hungarian side raised technical and financial questions related to ⤵️
the costs of the oil embargo. The sanctions package will be returned to COREPER for further negotiations; 5) Apparently there are other aspects of sanctions where not everyone is on the same page. This could be related to the shipment of Russian oil under EU-flagged vessels, ⤵️
which is mainly targeted by Greece; 6) There is no clear deadline for the six packages, but it is very clear that the EU cannot find effective solutions to mitigate Hungary's concerns, as much as Orban does not want to make concessions to make the sanctions package work soon.
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