what are the sanctions pronounced by Europe?

Europe announced on Tuesday, February 22, a first set of sanctions against Russia. ” [Ce seront] first of all personal sanctions against the 351 Russian deputies of the Duma, who voted for the recognition of the two separatist territories in Ukraine. We imagine a freezing of their assets in Europe”, explains journalist Francois Beaudonnet, present on the set of 19/20. Russian banks or their managers will also be sanctioned. The Russian state will no longer be able to refinance its debt on the European financial markets.

Germany has finally announced that it will freeze the commissioning of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. It is according to the journalist “very unlikely”that the sanctions are effective, in particular because “Vladimir Putin himself is not targeted”which could have been a “very strong symbolic gesture”. Europe, dependent on the Russian economy, does not want “shoot yourself in the foot”and “wants to be able to decide on a new package of stronger sanctions, if an invasion of Ukraine by Russia were to occur”.