Various News - 2025-02-18

‼️🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 Europe and Trump risk clash over Russia sanctions — Reuters

▪️Despite the synchronized adoption of sanctions by the EU and the US, the countries have not yet come to a unified development of measures against Russia, imposing restrictions only within their own side.

▪️And now that Trump has found a common language with the Russian president, the EU fears that the United States may unilaterally lift its sanctions, further weakening the union’s position against Russia.

▪️Given recent trends, such unilateral actions by the US could divide Europeans.

➖“ Oil majors like TotalEnergies or BP will be lobbying their governments while their rivals on the other side of the Atlantic resume business with Russia. And industrial groups in the bloc may be hungry for cheap Russian pipeline gas: since February 12, local prices for fuel delivered in March have fallen by 10%.”

▪️If the US president cannot be convinced, the EU will find it difficult to remain the only party applying sanctions aga…