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For the very wealthy, especially Russian oligarchs, it’s a kind of insurance; for everyone else, it’s a headache

The EU must OK the sixth sanctions package against Russia including blocking oil imports from Russia as soon as possible, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said Wednesday. "I think that the European Union must approve the sixth package of sanctions...

Russia is studying an Italian peace plan for Ukraine, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said Monday, according to Interfax. "Moscow is studying Italy's plan to resolve the situation in Ukraine," Rudenko was reported as saying. Italy's four-stage plan would...

The European Commission is considering a new suspension of the Stability and Growth Pact justified for all of 2023: "Increased uncertainty and strong downside risks to the economic outlook in the context of the war in Ukraine, unprecedented energy price...

Italian President Sergio Mattarella said Wednesday that Russia had deliberately placed itself outside the rules of the international order by invading Ukraine as he addressed the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg. "Faced with a Europe that is devastated...

While the diplomatic fist fight between the United States, the UK and the EU continues -- with no light at the end of the tunnel probably until the end of the summer -- US travelers to the European Union and...

For the aid foreseen as a result of the pandemic of Covid-19, are we quite sure that the economic prescriptions of the "ants" of Europe are efficient or sustainable for a "cicada" like Italy?  In the absence of a written...

The crisis will not change or delete those issues, but it will speed them up, reinforce and exacerbate them: “We will surely find that tomorrow’s world will be like today’s, only worse,” said Borrell.

Six weeks after a first political agreement was reached between Member States, the European Union launched the new military operation in the Mediterranean to stop arm dealings.