Proposal for EU's full phase-out of Russian oil disappears from European Commission agenda

Plans to announce the European Commission's RePowerEU proposal on 15 April, aimed at fully phasing out imports of Russian oil into the EU by the end of 2027, have been removed from the Commission's provisional agenda for next month.

By Tetyana Vysotska,Yevhen Kizilov

EU delays proposal to permanently ban Russian oil imports

The European Commission will no longer submit a legal proposal to permanently ban Russian oil imports over Moscow’s war in Ukraine on April 15 as previously ‌planned, an updated EU legislative agenda showed on Tuesday. An EU official, however, said the proposal had not been cancelled and would still be published though no longer by the mid-April date due to “current geopolitical developments”. The US-Israeli war on Iran is creating the biggest oil supply disruption in history, according to th...

By Reuters

EU delays April 15 proposal to permanently ban Russian oil imports - The Straits Times

EU delays April 15 proposal to permanently ban Russian oil imports  The Straits Times

EU Delays Proposal to Permanently Ban Russian Oil

EU Commission energy spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa Itkonen said a new date to unveil the proposed ban has not yet been determined, but stressed that Brussels remains “committed to making this proposal.”