EU Meets OPEC Amid Calls for Oil Output Increase

EU Meets OPEC Amid Calls for Oil Output Increase
The OPEC logo pictured ahead of an informal meeting between members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Algiers, Algeria on Sept. 28, 2016. Ramzi Boudina/Reuters
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BRUSSELS—European Union officials will hold talks in Vienna with OPEC representatives on Monday amid calls for the producer group to increase output and as the EU considers potential sanctions on Russian oil.

OPEC has resisted calls by the United States and the International Energy Agency to pump more crude to cool prices which reached a 14-year peak last month after Washington and Brussels imposed sanctions on Moscow following its invasion of Ukraine.