Hungary on Wednesday blocked the adoption of the sixth sanctions package in the Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER) with new demands. A lot of technical groundwork had been done to put the leaders’ agreement on the oil embargo into a legal text, an EU diplomat said. This was appreciated at the meeting of EU ambassadors. Hungary, […]
EU Council President Charles Michel announced the political agreement on the oil embargo via Twitter shortly before midnight. The import ban affects “two-thirds of oil imports from Russia”. With this, the EU is cutting an important source of revenue to finance the Russian war machine, Charles Michel later said, calling it a big step. “The […]
A meeting of EU ambassadors on the controversial embargo on Russian oil on Sunday evening did not bring the hoped-for breakthrough. The Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) therefore wants to make another attempt today before the start of the EU summit at 4 p.m. in Brussels. A compromise proposal from the EU Commission is on […]
The contrast with the first round of the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) could not have been greater. The representatives of the US and the EU demonstrated great unity after the meeting in Paris on Monday. The launch of the new forum last September was still overshadowed by the fact that Washington had negotiated a […]
A study by the Swiss electricity regulator Elcom recently startled the public between Zurich and Geneva: Switzerland could be threatened with 47 hours without electricity every winter from 2025. At least in the most pessimistic scenario calculated in the study. That is, at the end of March, when the lakes and rivers have little water […]
The ambassadors of EU member states will resume their talks on the sixth sanctions package on Monday or Tuesday at the latest. Over the weekend, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia pressed for significantly longer transition periods and guarantees regarding the planned embargo on Russian oil.Member states do agree that the sixth sanctions package is […]
Now it is the turn of the Permanent Representatives of the Member States. The consultations in the circle of EU ambassadors began on Wednesday. In the morning, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented the sixth sanctions package against Russia. It could take until the weekend for an agreement to be reached among the […]
EU energy ministers held a special meeting on Monday to discuss the situation following the suspension of Russian gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. A major topic on the sidelines was the sixth sanctions package, which the EU Commission is to present today. Now, things are supposed to move quickly: He expects the EU Commission […]
The proposal for a sixth sanctions package is not expected to be ready until next week. The EU Commission will present its ideas on how to proceed to the permanent representatives of the member states (COREPER) on Wednesday, according to EU sources. In a second step, Brussels will then sound out the room for maneuver […]
The sensitive personnel matter at the top of the Directorate-General for Enlargement (NEAR) set alarm bells ringing. Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi wanted to make Poland’s EU Ambassador Andrzej Sadoś his highest official, it was said in Brussels’ European Quarter and in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg just a few weeks ago. Not only are the […]