TAG: Russia sanctions
2023: The year in figures and charts
2023 was marked by crisis, transition and conflict.As the war in Ukraine dragged into its second yea...
8 months ago
Expect Russia to do ‘whatever possible’ to reassert influence in Bulgaria, outgoing PM warns
Bulgaria's outgoing Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov spent his mandate trying to boot out the Russians, and has no doubt that Moscow will redouble efforts to recover its influence now his administration has collapsed. Denkov, who stepped down on Tuesday, tol...
6 months ago
EU court removes Russian oligarchs Fridman, Aven from sanctions list
The General Court of the European Union on Wednesday took Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven off an EU sanctions list. It said that there isn’t sufficient evidence the two businessmen supported Russian President Vladimir Putin's war agains...
6 months ago
EU weighs sanctions on Russian liquefied natural gas
The European Commission is considering sanctions against Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG), according to two EU diplomats, a move that would mark the first time Brussels has dared to go after Moscow's gas sector.The Commission, the EU's executive, is cu...
5 months ago
EU finally ready to bring down Russia’s gas empire … sort of
For the first time since Moscow launched its full-scale attack on Ukraine more than two years ago, the EU is expected to aim its sanction bazooka at Russia’s lucrative gas sector.But the proposals on the table would only touch a fraction of the billions M...
5 months agoEU proposes first sanctions on Russia’s LNG sector
BRUSSELS — For the first time, the European Commission has proposed sanctions on Russia's powerful liquefied natural gas industry, according to documents seen by POLITICO.The measures wouldn’t directly bar Russian LNG imports to the EU. Instead, they woul...
5 months ago
Watch out Brussels, Geert Wilders’ new Dutch government is coming
Geert Wilders’ far-right party is set to become part of the Dutch government — and the shockwaves won't take long to hit the EU machine in Brussels.After six months of wrangling and painful negotiations, the Netherlands finally has a governing agreement f...
4 months ago
How to navigate Hungary’s EU presidency policy agenda like a pro
This article is part of the Hungarian presidency of the EU special report.The Hungarians are taking over the helm of the Council of the EU in the aftermath of June’s European election, just as horse-trading over the bloc’s top jobs gets into full swing.As...
2 months ago
EU ‘ready’ to negotiate as Hungary-Ukraine oil row boils over
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Tuesday said it would step in after Hungary and Slovakia accused Ukraine of threatening their oil supplies with its partial ban on Russian crude exports passing through the country.Kyiv last month adopted sanctions blockin...
2 months ago
Hungary demands EU action against Ukraine as Russian oil spat escalates
BRUSSELS — Hungary on Monday said it had asked the European Union to take action against Ukraine for imposing a partial ban on Russian oil exports, arguing the move was jeopardizing Budapest’s energy security.Kyiv last month adopted sanctions blocking the...
2 months ago
The never-ending job of depriving Putin of the means to kill Ukrainians
Some people’s to-do lists never end.The European Union's top diplomat on Russia sanctions, veteran Eurocrat David O’Sullivan, is one. “In Moscow, there’s someone getting up every day, thinking: How can I get my hands on those chips today?” he says.In othe...
2 months ago
EU snubs Hungary and Slovakia over Ukraine oil sanctions
BRUSSELS — The European Commission has no plans to begin formal talks with Ukraine after Kyiv imposed a partial ban on exports of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia, the EU executive said on Thursday.In June, Ukraine adopted sanctions blocking the transi...
2 months ago
Germany zeroes in on Ukrainian suspect in Nord Stream pipeline explosions
The man accused of being behind the most serious attack on Germany's energy supplies since the World War II can be seen on Facebook standing by the sea and smiling at the camera.His name: Vladimir Zhuravlev. Nationality: Ukrainian. Place of residence: Kyi...
2 months ago
Viktor Orbán is losing his Putin discount
Without Russian oil, Hungarians will go hungry. At least, that was the message from Budapest’s foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, when he landed in St. Petersburg earlier this week. “We will not be able to feed the country” if these supplies are interrupt...
1 month ago