Paris 'pressured' Ukraine to stop shaming French firms in Russia
France and China have allegedly put pressure on Ukraine to take down its online name-and-shame list of foreign companies still doing business in Russia.
Ukraine slams grain trade restrictions at EU summit
Restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural exports to the EU could translate into military losses in their bid to stop Russia's war, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned EU leaders during their summit in Brussels on Thursday.
Investigation
How Western machinery is helping Russia kill Ukrainians
Russia's missile production capacities have been supercharged thanks to Western machinery. Despite European sanctions having been in place since 2014, many European companies have turned a blind eye to exports of valuable technology to Russian military factories.
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EU leaders to consider 'all options' to boost defence finance
EU leaders have agreed to explore "all options" for mobilising funding to boost Ukraine's military and Europe's defence industry during their summit in Brussels.
Global South trying to back winner in Ukraine war
The Global South is trying to back the winner in the Russia-Ukraine war, while Europe sees Russia as a direct threat, Ukraine's foreign minister has indicated.
EU must axe Russian F1 driver from sanctions list, rules court
The EU's top court has ordered that a Russian former Formula 1 driver, Nikita Mazepin, be removed from the bloc's sanctions list.
Poland and allies seek EU curbs on Russian grain
The EU has a "moral obligation" to curb Russian grain imports, including of possibly stolen Ukrainian grain, five EU countries have said.
EU aims to use €3bn Russian windfall to aid Ukraine
EU leaders in Brussels this week are poised to finalise plans on using approximately €3bn in annual profits from frozen Russian assets to buy ammunition and weapons for Ukraine.
Difficult talks ahead on financing new EU defence spending
With the war in Ukraine showing no signs of ending any time soon, EU leaders will meet in Brussels on Thursday and Friday (21 and 22 March) to discuss how to boost the defence capabilities of Ukraine and of the bloc itself.
EU ministers keen to use Russian profits for Ukraine ammo
The EU is nearing a deal on using profits from frozen Russian assets to buy ammunition for Ukraine, while preparing the next round of anti-Russia sanctions.
Call to change EIB defence spending rules hits scepticism
Fourteen EU member states are pushing for the European Investment Bank to boost defence investment, potentially including ammunition — but bank officials have shown reluctance.
Interview
Ukrainian girl tells story of Russian child abductions
She was 16 when Russians put her on a bus one morning in October 2022 in the main square of her Ukrainian home town.
Finnish PM: Russia preparing for 'long conflict with West'
Finland, which shares a border with Russia, has cautioned about the danger of a Russian attack in coming years. Russia is not "invincible" but "self-satisfaction is no longer an option," Finnish prime minister Petteri Orpo said.
Opinion
Ukraine's accession is affordable — but corruption is the worry
We estimate the total direct cost of Ukraine to current member states via the regular EU budget at €19bn per year. But Ukraine's feeble democratic institutions have been weakened by the war, writes Zsolt Darvas of the Bruegel think-tank.
US and EU top arms sales to Middle East and Israel
The US and EU are supplying the most weapons to the Middle East, including to Israel, as the Gaza war threatens to ignite a regional conflict.
EU banks in Russia react to US sanctions threat
The US has threatened Austria's top bank with sanctions for doing business in Russia, following earlier talks with German lenders.
Opinion
The 'cheap grain imports' row — Ukraine puts its side
It is high time to step back to take a look at a wider picture —that takes into account a broad array of factors affecting the European agricultural market so that the impact of the Ukrainian imports is not overblown.
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Russia plotting to wreck EU referendum, Moldova says
Russia is planning to sabotage a referendum on EU integration in Moldova, Chișinău's spy service has warned, as EU diplomats fear bad "surprises" also in the Western Balkans.
EU pushes for stronger defence and joint weapons purchases
The European Commission has unveiled its first-ever defence strategy and investment programme — in a bid to reduce its dependence on the US and in response to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Column
Running away from the Ukraine war will only bring it closer
Karl Kraus, the prolific Austrian journalist and satirist, once wrote: "There is only one thing worse than the shame of war: the shame of people who no longer want to know about it." That would now seem to include Europe.
Feature
Hungary's Ukrainian refugees in two minds as relations sour
Ukrainians struggle to match the kindness of individual Hungarians with the nationalist government's pro-Russia rhetoric. "Ukraine's primary enemies are Russians and Putin, obviously. But the number two is Viktor Orbán," Viktoria Petrovszka, a Ukrainian woman living in Hungary, says.
Investigation
Deepfake dystopia — Russia's disinformation in Spain and Italy
Since the beginning of the war between Russia and Ukraine, deep fakes have been weaponised, infiltrating every corner of social media in Italy and Spain.
Putin's nuclear riposte to Macron fails to impress EU diplomats
Putin's latest nuclear threat was meant to maximise Western division over French remarks on Nato, but contained little new, Kremlin-watchers say.
Podcast
Hyperlocal meets supranational
In this week's Euroscopic podcast; antisemitism and confusion in France and Germany, Sweden joins NATO, Novaya Gazeta Europe editor Mikhail Komin on Ukraine and EU and a chat with DiEM25, an EP election hopeful campaigning in Berlin.
Von der Leyen appeals for 'new EU defence mindset'
EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen urged "a new European defence mindset" to strengthen the bloc's defence capabilities. But will her latest proposal, to use Russian assets for Ukraine's military needs, stir up controversy?
Analysis
Macron on Western boots in Ukraine: What he really meant
Macron's taboo-shattering words on Western troops in Ukraine likely meant more special forces on the ground, but were also a new alarm-call on Russia's growing threat.
Column
Memo from Munich — EU needs to reinvent democracy support
If we pretend that states are democratic because they are in the EU's geopolitical tent, we betray democracy. Conversely, functioning democracies can make geopolitical choices that the EU does not like.
All of Orbán's MPs back Sweden's Nato entry
All of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán's MPs voted in favour of Sweden's entry into Nato on Monday, in an anticlimactic end to his veto drama.
EU paid Russia €420-per-capita for fossil fuels since war began
EU paid Russia €420-per-capita for fossil fuels since war began, new research shows.
Opinion
After two years of war, time to hit Putin's LNG exports
Two years of tragedies, with well over 100,000 Russian war crimes now registered, underscore the urgent need to stop international LNG investments in Russia that continue to fund Vladimir Putin's war chest.
Opinion
Creating the conditions for just peace in Ukraine
What would 'just peace' look like for Ukraine? How could we get there? And what does 'just peace' actually mean? Brussels Dispatches on how to get to long-term peace in Ukraine.
Russian oligarchs failed to get off EU blacklist
Hungary failed to get three Russian and three Chinese names deleted, as the EU approved its 13th package of sanctions ahead of an anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Podcast
Navalny, Ian Bremmer and "more Europe"
EU headlines, Russia after Navalny, the Munich Security Conference and an interview with Ian Bremmer, author and founder of the Eurasia Group on his main takeaways from the conference.
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