Overview
- EU foreign ministers are considering new restrictions on entities that facilitate the tanker network moving Russian oil outside sanctions, according to reports of the meeting agenda.
- Kaja Kallas said ministers will discuss what more can be done about the fleet because it directly sustains Russia’s war financing.
- A Polish paper circulated before the meeting proposes coordinated rules that would allow authorities to board suspect vessels and involve port and coastal states as well as service providers.
- Officials are evaluating greater pressure on flag registries, with EU outreach said to have prompted some deregistrations and with Panama earlier tightening entries for older ships.
- Denmark urged an automatically updated blacklist of suspect vessels, and diplomats say the measures under debate are candidates for inclusion in the EU’s 20th package by year‑end.