EU energy security: in hot water
When looking for scapegoats for the EU’s energy crisis and our dependence on Russian gas, it is all too easy to attack “district heating”. District heating is the main way that cities are heated in...
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EU summit: Leaked draft of new Russia sanctions
A pro-Russian militant stands guard at a checkpoint outside Donetsk earlier this week. UPDATE: We’ve now posted the draft communiqué on Ukraine. You can read it here. Today’s special EU summit was...
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The EU’s confusing course on Russian sanctions
Sweden's Carl Bildt, centre, and Lithuania's Linas Linkevicius, left, urged an arms embargo Trying to keep track of what the EU has agreed – or, in some cases, has agreed to consider – on sanctions...
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Leaked Russia sanctions memo: the details
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, chairs a security council meeting at the Kremlin this week Although the sanctions options paper prepared by the European Commission for today’s meeting of EU...
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Van Rompuy’s letter on Russia: the complete text
Russian president Vladimir Putin, left, with Van Rompuy at a January summit in Brussels After weeks of equivocation that made it appear the EU might never move to “phase three” sanctions against Russia...
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Russian sanctions: leaked “phase three” legislation
A Vienna branch of Sberbank, Russia's largest state-owned bank, which would be covered Although a large chunk of Brussels officialdom has already cleared out for the summer break, the 28 ambassadors to...
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EU summit: leaked language on Ukraine sanctions
Italy's Mogherini, the likely next EU foreign policy chief, arrives at a meeting with her counterparts If EU leaders are going move forward with additional sanctions against Russia for its increasingly...
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Leaked Russia sanctions paper: the excerpts
Russia's Vladimir Putin, right, talks to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton last month in Minsk As we reported in today’s dead-tree edition of the FT, we got our hands on the three-page Russia...
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Russia sanctions: excerpts from draft legislation
Russian president Vladimir Putin visits a Rosneft oil refinery on the Black Sea last year EU ambassadors head into yet another meeting Friday afternoon to hammer out the latest round of sanctions...
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Pyongyang to Brussels: Our prisons are just like Belgium’s
Hyon Hak Bong presenting his credentials to Queen Elizabeth two years ago Hyon Hak Bong, North Korea’s envoy to the EU, has his work cut out. The instructions from Pyongyang are clear: re-open a...
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EU Summit: Awaiting the next Russian blacklist
Ukraine's prime minister Yatseniuk returns to Brussels Friday to sign the EU integration treaty Just how sensitive is tonight’s summit dinner debate over the next steps for EU sanctions against Russia?...
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Is the EU preparing to re-engage with Russia?
Diplomats reported little progress in talks between foreign ministers in Berlin earlier this week The new year has brought with it much talk of new diplomatic “windows” opening for talks between Europe...
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Leaked paper: Should Greece cut defence spending?
Greek soldiers march in front of parliament during a military parade to mark independence One of the oddities of Greece’s bailout programme has been that, despite five years of punishing austerity, its...
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EU watering down commitment to 120,000 refugees?
Hungary's interior minister, Sandor Pinter, arrives at the migration council Monday afternoon The EU’s interior ministers started their highly-anticipated meeting to agree next steps in Europe’s...
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EU migration “wish list” to DC includes intel help
Barack Obama speaks with Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit Now that the EU has signed a tentative deal with Turkey to help it stem the flow of migrants coming from the Middle...
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Brussels Briefing: Remember Ukraine?
Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of our new Brussels Briefing. To receive it every morning in your email in-box, sign up here. Ukraine's Arseniy Yatseniuk speaks during last night's "no confidence"...
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Brussels Briefing: Trouble with Turkey
Welcome to Thursday’s edition of our daily Brussels Briefing. To receive it every morning in your email in-box, sign up here. Erdogan, Merkel and Obama at the November Group of 20 summit in Antalya,...
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Brussels Blog: Davutoglu’s demise
Welcome to Friday’s edition of our daily Brussels Briefing. To receive it every morning in your email in-box, sign up here. Just 24 hours after Frans Timmermans, the European Commission vice-president...
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Brussels Briefing: IMF’s Athens Hangover
By Arthur Beesley in London Europe is transfixed these days by Brexit, terrorism, migrants and the populist advance. But the riddle of Greece remains. A damning new report by the IMF’s in-house...
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Brussels Briefing: Trump 2017 – Europe edition
“Their world collapses. Ours is built.” So said Florian Philippot, the main adviser to Marine Le Pen, hailing Donald Trump’s victory as the start of a new order in world politics. Elections in France,...
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