9
Nov
2023
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Effectiveness of the EU sanctions on Russia (RC-B9-0453/2023, B9-0453/2023, B9-0454/2023, B9-0455/2023, B9-0456/2023, B9-0457/2023)
Dear Chairman, I vote against another resolution on sanctions, sanctions have failed, we are destroying only ourselves and no one else. This reminds me of a time of prohibition when alcohol was banned in the US, and yet everyone drank it; So we can read: Russian LNG imports have increased by 40% since the invasion of Ukraine. Thus, Spain and Belgium became the second and third importing country of this gas, immediately after China. Your honor, Europe, you're blowing at the neck of China, as much as you're sanctioning. Of course, that gas did not stay in those countries, but went everywhere and was bought, in fact, by everyone. What has changed since two years ago is most important. Energy is more or less coming, as it was before, only now it is much more expensive and goes through third countries, so huge amounts of oil are imported through India. Russian oil, of course. Belgium - they didn't have enough 11 rounds of sanctions to renounce Russian diamonds, so they probably won't even have 12. Everyone in Europe is looking at themselves. Only the Croatian government does not do anything for its own citizens that is destroyed by inflation, but obeys Brussels.