Overview
- Parliament approved temporary limits on diesel and aviation-fuel exports to other EU countries by a vote of 135–4, with 42 abstentions.
- The measure allows case-by-case exemptions authorized by the head of the Customs Service, and military-related supplies are excluded from the curb.
- The government has asked Washington how to request a delay or exemption from the new U.S. sanctions, according to Politico’s reporting from unnamed sources.
- Officials fear banking cutoffs could force the Burgas refinery, which supplies up to about 80% of Bulgaria’s fuel, to halt operations and trigger shortages.
- U.S. sanctions announced in late October target Lukoil and Rosneft across the oil supply chain, and Lukoil has since said it will sell international assets, including a planned sale of LUKOIL International GmbH to Gunvor.