With no option drawing a majority, EU ambassadors are deadlocked on sanctioning Israeli settlements — exposing how common foreign policy stalls once a national move forces the question to Brussels.
The package advanced only after Greece dropped its veto in exchange for keeping its tankers in the Russian LNG trade to non-EU buyers. Here is who agreed, how the unanimity rule forced the concession, and what actually binds.
EU ambassadors face a 15 July deadline to agree changes to the Russian oil price cap or watch it automatically jump from $44.10 to $58 a barrel under a formula written into the sanctions regime itself. The mechanics of that trigger, and Sofia's retreat from a hard veto, are what will decide the outcome.