💰 EU working on 10th round of Russia sanctions - diplomats

TL;DR

The EU's Russia hawks have already asked for new sanctions to curb the bloc's nuclear fuel cooperation with Moscow, ban imports of Russian diamonds and reduce trade with Kremlin's ally Belarus, among other measures."The next package of sanctions will be ready somewhere around the tragic first anniversary of the invasion," said one of the senior diplomats, while a second said "there was ambition" to have the measures ready at that time."It's too early, we just had the ninth package," said a senior diplomat from another EU country, one that still needed to be convinced on moving to another set of sanctions after the previous batch was agreed in December.The Hungarian foreign ministry and the government spokesman did not respond to requests for comment on reports that Budapest was blocking that move ahead of the talks on Monday.The foreign ministers are also expected on Monday to add more individuals to its Iran sanctions list over human rights abuses, with some EU countries calling for even more action in response to Tehran providing drones that Russia uses in Ukraine."

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