After the veto – now working on new sanctions packages

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Published 09.58

          

         The task force and the Coast Guard on their way out to a suspected shadow fleet vessel outside                    Trelleborg in March. Archive photo. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

The 20th sanctions package against Russia has just been completed. Then the EU will already start with number 21.

The heads of state and government of the EU countries had a redemptive meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj in Cyprus on Thursday, after the multi-billion loan and sanctions package went through.

– There was a sigh of relief everywhere, not least from his side. Then we should be clear that it is not that we have solved any problem – rather, we have avoided a disaster, says Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) afterwards.

He and many others within the EU note that it is already time to start focusing on the next sanctions package.

– There are a lot of people right now who are very focused on the shadow fleet. There is more to do, says the Prime Minister.