EU Weighs Trade Measures Aimed at Russian Druzhba Pipeline Oil

The European Union is considering trade measures to target its remaining Russian oil imports, according to people familiar with the matter.

The bloc’s executive arm is reviewing continued imports of Russian oil via the Druzhba pipeline that feeds Hungary and Slovakia, and the move under consideration would mostly affect those supplies if they’re not phased out, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

Budapest and Bratislava has so far been reluctant to diversify away from Moscow’s oil, and have blocked measures that they say endanger their energy security.

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