The Brussels Radar: Sanctions, Enlargement and EU Cohesion

On eleventh-hour unanimity compromise, Brussels agreed to delist prominent Russian billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman in exchange for locking in the wider Russia sanctions framework on a 36-month review cycle. Concurrently, the European Commission is advancing accession plans for candidates like Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro and Albania, pairing market integration with unprecedented institutional and internal-market […]