Poland's prime minister said the EU's "appetite" for sanctions against Russia has been reduced

Mateusz Morawiecki

In the European Union, there is less desire to impose sanctions against Russia, there is a “fatigue” from them, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview with RMF FM radio station.

“Today there is already much less desire, appetite for new sanctions. I think there is fatigue,” he said.

According to Morawiecki, now the EU is more focused on the fight against circumvention of already imposed sanctions than on work on restrictions against Russia. He said that Warsaw both points to "loopholes" that Moscow can use to circumvent sanctions, and advocates the introduction of a new package of restrictions.

The Polish prime minister said that the topic of sanctions will still be back on the agenda in the EU in the coming weeks. He suggested that a new package of sanctions against Russia would be ready within the next two months.

After the start of the military operation in Ukraine, the European Union imposed ten packages of sanctions against Russia, which affected both individuals and a number of enterprises, and a number of Russian goods were also banned. The last package was agreed on February 25.

Von der Leyen said that the 11th package of sanctions will be aimed at closing loopholes for Moscow to circumvent restrictions. The Telegraph newspaper wrote that the European Union could impose trade sanctions on countries that, according to Brussels, are helping Russia to circumvent the restrictions imposed on it.

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Commenting on the imposition of sanctions on Russia, President Vladimir Putin said in February that "the Russian economy and governance system turned out to be much stronger than the West believed," and the restrictions ended up negatively affecting those countries that imposed them.