However because of a ban on Russian plane flying by way of EU airspace linked to a wider sanctions regime, the Russian president wouldn’t be capable of attain Budapest with out defying the EU measures, taking an enormous threat by flying over Ukraine, or going through a circuitous Balkan route.
Below the EU’s sanctions regime, nationwide authorities might contemplate exceptions to the ban for Russian journey “if the competent authorities have decided that such touchdown, take-off or overflight is required for humanitarian functions or for some other function per the goals of this regulation,” in response to the EU authorized textual content on the sanctions.
European Fee spokesperson Anitta Hipper confirmed throughout a briefing with journalists that particular person EU international locations may make exceptions to the journey ban.
Neither Putin nor his international minister, Sergey Lavrov, are at the moment topic to particular person bans on journey inside the EU, she added.
“Such derogations should be given by member states individually,” Hipper stated.
No date has but been set for the assembly between Putin and Trump. Moscow has not given any indications concerning the Kremlin chief’s journey plans.
