European Union countries are negotiating a deal on Russian oil sanctions that would embargo shipment deliveries but exempt oil delivered by pipeline to win over Hungary and unblock a sixth package of measures against Moscow, officials said on Friday (May 27). An agreement could be reached by ambassadors of EU member states in Brussels on Sunday, on time for their leaders to agree at a May 30-31 summit, one of the officials said."The idea is to split the oil embargo into pipeline and seaborne deliveries," another official said. "Pipeline would get an exemption for some time to organise a replacement." ... (full story)