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Russia: Northern Europeans want to lower oil price cap

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Published: January 14th, 2025,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Der manövrierunfähige Tanker
The maneuverable tanker Eventin, which wrecked in the Baltic Sea north of Rügen, is said to be part of the Russian shadow fleet. Moscow is using it to circumvent the oil price cap.

The governments of the Scandinavian and Baltic EU member states have called on the EU Commission to advocate a reduction in the oil price cap on imports of Russian oil. „The international oil market is better supplied today than in 2022, which reduces the risk of a supply shock from a lower price cap,“ write the foreign ministers of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia in a letter to High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas and Commissioner for Financial Markets Maria Luís Albuquerque.

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