Austria supported<\/strong><\/a> the EU’s 12th sanction package against Russia after Ukraine suspended the inclusion of the Raiffeisen Bank in the war sponsors list, Reuters reported on Dec. 16, citing an EU diplomat.<\/p>\n Media reports emerged<\/strong><\/a> ahead of the Dec. 14-15 European Council summit that Vienna is delaying the newest package in an effort to remove the Austrian Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) from Kyiv’s blacklist.<\/p>\n Even though EU countries publicly announced<\/a><\/strong> the 12th package during the summit, EUObserver wrote that Austria continues<\/a><\/strong> to hold out on account of the RBI.<\/p>\n The website of Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NAZK) now reads<\/strong><\/a> that the inclusion of the RBI in the international sponsors of war list is “suspended for the period of bilateral consultations involving representatives of the European Commission.”<\/p>\n “Austria has now lifted its reserve. Sanctions (against Russia) should now be formally adopted this coming week,” Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty journalist Rikard Jozwiak reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n