fluctuation oil and gas prices to have an inadvertent impact on the french votes. so even as they are drafting that embargo, they say they will not ask eu member states to vote on it until after the french election happens this weekend. that said, if the eu is going to impose an embargo on russian oil and gas, all the eu member states have to vote for that. including france. and if marine law pen gets elected this weekend, it is almost certainty that she will have france block that kind of a move against russia. she might even forced the eu to drop some of the other measures they ve already taken against russia like the embargo on russian coal that they ve already put in place. or the ban on russian ships using eu ports. you need eu unanimity, any consensus among the eu states order to enforce those things. she is just as likely as you might expect to back france out of that and thereby destroy the eu s ability to any of the things against russia.
the head of the european union is now confirming that the eu is drafting plans for a full embargo, a full ban on russian oil imports to europe which is the closest thing you could get to a silver bullet against the russian state. the eu is not planning on voting to implement any such ban on russian oil until france has these elections weekend, they don t want some sun fluctuation oil and gas prices to have an inadvertent impact on the french votes. so even as they are drafting that embargo, they say they will not ask eu member states to vote on it until after the french election happens this weekend. that said, if the eu is going to impose an embargo on russian oil and gas, all the eu member states have to vote for that. including france. and if marine law pen gets elected this weekend, it is almost certainty that she will have france block that kind of a move against russia. she might even forced the eu to drop some of the other measures
know, the vibe runs of giving could be a theme this time of year. can we go back quickly to economics and paolitics in europe. obviously italy, france, and germany next year have elections. do you expect more turmoil in those countries? i never have been more worried about the future of the european union. i think the brexit vote was an accident waiting to happen but still a very bad division. do you draw parallels between brexit and trump? yeah, i thought it would give a resraoeufl to trump at the time, and i worry that we are going to see the same with law pen who is a great politician. i worry, you know, who knows