Solene Delinger
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09:31, May 05, 2022
Christian Cambon was the guest of Europe 1 this morning. At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces Committee estimated that the sanctions taken by the EU against Russia were not effective for the moment.
For Christian Cambon, the embargo on Russian oil decided by the EU will not be enough to make Russia bend. Invited to Sonia Mabrouk’s microphone this Thursday morning on Europe 1, the chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces Committee felt that Russia was not yet weakened by economic sanctions.
“We do not see the consequences of these sanctions for Russia”
The European Union, some member states of which are very dependent on Moscow for energy, has decided to stop its purchases of Russian coal. Brussels prohibits Europeans from making new investments in Russia’s energy sector or exporting oil-refining goods and technology to Russia. The 27 have also planned to significantly reduce their imports of Russian gas by the end of the year.
“These successive embargoes and these sanctions have had consequences in Europe and in France on many professions, in particular on farmers. For the moment, I do not see that they are weakening Russia”, he believes at the microphone. of Europe 1. “We say that she is going to put one knee on the ground but we do not see the consequences”.
“It’s quite thin”
The Europeans have chosen to favor economic weapons against Russia, rather than resorting to military weapons. “We renounce military intervention so as not to engage our own country and the whole continent in a war. The sanctions are quite thin. But we see no other opportunities”.