European leaders fail to agree on latest package of Russian sanctions – Europe live

Hungary and Slovakia oppose measures and separate EU proposal on phasing out Russian energy imports

But it’s worth noting that the EU has agreed on rolling over the already existing sanctions against Russia, which were due to expire.

Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk told a late night briefing that he was “greatly satisfied” by that decision, as “there is always a bit of concern” about whether all countries would agree on that, but “almost always we manage to get it in the end, and we did that today, too.”