The European Union has refuted reports that it is considering sanctions on American polemist Tucker Carlson for his controversial interview with Vladimir Putin, recorded during his trip to Moscow.
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00:14 I can say beyond this that currently there are no discussions in the relevant EU bodies linked to this specific person,
00:24 the name you mentioned, the American person who is in Moscow.
00:28 But the member states, when they see that they want to sanction someone else in addition to whom we already sanctioned,
00:35 they can always bring a proposal, back it up with evidence, and when everyone agrees among the 27, then the decision is adopted.
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01:32 We sanctioned until now almost up to 2,000 people, not only from the military and political elites,
01:37 but also the so-called propagandists, who are especially outspoken constantly all the time,
01:44 mostly in the Russian media, about the war and defending Putin and having all sorts of unacceptable outbursts against Ukraine and Ukrainian people.
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