Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has dug his heels in and is refusing to approve an 18th sanctions passage until he gets an exemption from a plan to end all Russian gas imports by 2028. The rising tensions are a growing embarrassment and the cracks in EU unity are widening.

COMMENT: Slovakia’ Prime Minister pushes back on EU gas phase-out, demands a delay to the sanctions as EU cracks widen

FSUOGM - Former Soviet Union Oil & Gas
By Ben Aris in Berlin 17 July 2025
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is becoming a major embarrassment for the EU plans to phase out all Russian gas imports by 2028.

ConocoPhillips asks to expand oil exploration in NPR-A

NorthAmOil - North America Oil & Gas
By bne IntelliNews 17 July 2025
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Trump has proposed hitting countries that buy Russian crude with 100% secondary sanctions, but while the idea sounds nice and would wreck the Russian economy if it works, in practice those sanctions would be very hard to effect.

COMMENT: Trump’s 100% tariff threat to Russian oil customers unlikely to work – Vakulenko

FSUOGM - Former Soviet Union Oil & Gas
By Newsbase 17 July 2025
Donald Trump’s threat to impose secondary sanctions on countries buying Russian oil is probably more symbolic than practical, says a leading oil analyst and senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Sergey Vakulenko.

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