The EU Council and Parliament have agreed to ban imports of Russian natural gas from entry into force in early 2026 of the Regulation for spot-market liquefied natural gas (LNG), with a ban for pipeline gas from September 2027.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania successfully integrated into the EU internal energy market Sunday, becoming fully independent from Russia’s and Belarus’s electricity systems.
Senior European legal experts concluded the legal work Tuesday on the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine to hold Russia accountable for its war.
The EU Council has added three Russian foreign military intelligence officers to the list of sanctions against Russia for conducting a series of cyberattacks against the Republic of Estonia in 2020.
The EU Commission disbursed the first €3 billion tranche of a financial aid loan to loan for Ukraine Friday, to be repaid with proceeds from immobilised Russian State assets in the EU.
The EU Commission opened an investigation into Chinese-owned social media giant TikTok Tuesday, following indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential elections.
New sanctions against Russia over the war against Ukraine, adopted Monday, focus on cracking down on Russia’s shadow fleet, North Korean officials, and Chinese firms making drones for Moscow. “Russia…















