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Russian citizens are protesting in different ways: they are risking brutal suppression in banned street protests, signing petitions, and people in the cultural sector are boycotting their state employers. However, the majority of the population continues to support the government's course. Commentators discuss the role played by the various actors here and the protesters' chances of success.

In Russia, within just a few days the already very one-sided media landscape has been brought completely under the Kremlin's control. Any reports or commentaries on the armed forces and the operations in Ukraine that deviate from the official version are banned. The few critical outlets that remained such as Echo of Moscow and TV Dozhd were first blocked and then shut down. Other media are partly bowing to the pressure in order to survive.

ACI EUROPE, the trade association representing Europe’s airports, invited Christel Vandenhouten, Head of Sustainable Development at Brussels Airport to an exclusive interview to discuss sustainability

EU leaders plan to say at their summit in Versailles, France, this week that, "Russia's war of aggression constitutes a tectonic shift in European history," according to a draft conclusions seen on Tuesday. The bloc plans to pledge to "increase substantially defence expenditures" and to "phase out" Russian fuel imports including coal, oil and gas, according to the draft for the summit, which takes place Thursday and Friday.

A new analysis suggests more Malaysian used cooking oil was exported to Britain and Ireland than was collected in the country, raising fears that banned substances are being fraudulently passed off as the in-demand biofuel feedstock.

Russia adopted a list of “enemy countries” in which the whole of the EU is included. The first sanctions against the “enemy countries” announced was that Russian counterparts would settle their debts with them only in rubles.

Bezirkshauptmannschaft Hartberg-Fürstenfeld (Effet direct)
Freedom of establishment
Posting of workers: national courts must ensure that penalties for non-compliance with administrative obligations are proportionate

Commission v United Kingdom
Own resources of the Communities
The United Kingdom has failed to fulfil its obligations in relation to customs control and the availability of EU own resources by failing to adopt the measures necessary to combat fraud with regards to undervalued imports of textiles and footwear from China

A “dashboard” to follow-up citizens' recommendations must be created, so the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) does not fail its goal of including citizens in EU policymaking, Christa Scweng told EURACTIV.

EU heads of states and government will consider ways to “phase out our dependency on Russian gas, oil and coal imports” at an informal meeting later this week, according to leaked draft summit conclusions seen by EURACTIV.

Tuesday, 8 March

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