Cracking Down on Putin's Oil Empire: EU Launches Toughest Sanctions Yet

Well I think there are two questions there. The first one is yes, I think it is a strong package. But of course it's a strong package three and a half years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and there are many elements of this, particularly for example, the removal of Russian financial institutions from the international system that should have been done three and a half years ago. So I think we should should welcome the package, but, at the same time, we need to query why it's taken so long to take some really basic measures...