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Economic sanctions

EU to lift economic sanctions on Syria

The European Union has decided to lift economic sanctions on Syria, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas announced Tuesday evening. “We want to help the Syrian people rebuild a new, inclusive and peaceful Syria. The EU has always stood
20/05/2025

Greece’s Pierrakakis wins Eurogroup race

ATHENS — The country that almost got kicked out of the eurozone is now running the powerful EU body that rescued it from bankruptcy. Greece’s finance minister, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, on Thursday beat

France, Italy told they won’t be hurt by EU’s €210B megaloan to Ukraine

BRUSSELS — France and Italy can breathe a sigh of relief after the EU’s statistics office signaled that the financial guarantees needed to back a €210 billion financing package to Ukraine won’t increase

Here’s how EU capitals would divvy up Ukraine loan backstop under €210B frozen assets plan

EU countries will need to individually commit billions of euros to guarantee as much as €210 billion in urgently needed loans to Ukraine, with Germany set to backstop up to €52 billion,

Merz dashes to Brussels for talks with De Wever and VDL on Russian assets

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will arrive Friday in Brussels in a bid to convince Belgium’s leadership to back a €165 billion reparations loan to Ukraine using the cash value of frozen Russian

Commission unveils €165B loan to Ukraine using Russian frozen assets

BRUSSELS — The European Commission is proposing a reparations loan of €165 billion for Ukraine using the cash value of frozen Russian state assets held in Belgium, according to documents obtained by
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