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A stay in the areas occupied for eight years by pro-Russian armed groups allows us to grasp the perspective of a future Ukraine that is under Russian occupation and the careful look we must take at this conflict, writes Olivier Baumard.

Ukrainians said they were fighting on Wednesday (2 March) on the first sizeable city Russia claimed to have seized, while Moscow stepped up its lethal bombardment of major population centres that its invasion force has so far failed to tame.

Two months after the deadline set by the European Commission, Romania submitted its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) national strategic plan, its agriculture ministry said on Tuesday (1 March). This brings the grand total of national submissions to 26, with only Belgium missing.

Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó called Sberbank a 'victim' of the EU's sanction policy after the Russian bank said it was leaving Europe after bloc regulators announced their license would be revoked.

Apple will stop selling its products on Russian soil following calls from Ukraine in response to the war Russia has launched against the country. EURACTIV France reports.

The EU has imposed economic sanctions on Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik for what officials describe as their “essential and instrumental” role in bringing aggression towards Ukraine and destabilising neighbouring countries. 

In the latest edition of APPLiA’s short digital interview series, Paolo Falcioni, APPLiA Director General, discusses how the EU’s proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism risks enabling a depressive industrial strategy that jeopardises the European economy and environment.

Marking the World Rare Disease Day, Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides and health ministers called for stronger coordination around rare diseases with high hopes on European Reference Networks (ERNs). 

The Swiss-based company which built the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is has filed for insolvency, a local official confirmed to Swiss radio broadcaster SRF on Tuesday (1 March).

All of Europe is anxiously checking the storage levels of its gas depots. However, what most fail to consider are the vital train wagons full of an old-timey fuel that keeps Europe running: coal.

Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, US intelligence had predicted a blistering assault by Moscow that would quickly mobilize the vast Russian air power that its military assembled in order to dominate Ukraine's skies.

Some of America's best-known companies including Apple, Google, Ford, Harley-Davidson and Exxon Mobil rebuked and rejected Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, under steady pressure from investors and consumers decrying the violence.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has become a heated talking point amongst French presidential candidates, who are racing to position themselves on the crisis in the lead up to the polls. EURACTIV France reports.

The International Monetary Fund and World Bank said they were racing to provide billions of dollars of additional funding to Ukraine in coming weeks and months, adding the war there is creating "significant spillovers" to other countries.

The United States closed its airspace to Russian planes as the Russian military attempted to encircle and subdue Ukrainian cities with intensifying bombardments on Wednesday (2 March), seven days into an invasion that has sparked massive international sanctions.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about the stark shift in the way Bulgarians view Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sweden pushing the EU to issue sanctions against Russian oligarchs, and so much more.

Kazakhstan, one of Russia's closest allies, has denied a request for its troops to join the offensive in Ukraine and will not recognise the so-called republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.

Policy makers need to put energy and climate policy at the heart of a new EU–Africa partnership, write Kandeh Yumkella and Connie Hedegaard.

During the sixth day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the army continues to fire rockets and multiple launch rocket systems at the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Mariupol and others with full knowledge they are killing civilians, not military, writes Roman Rukomeda.

Amid wide-ranging sanctions imposed on Russia by the EU and also Albania, the last shipment of Russian wheat has arrived in the country on Tuesday. Exit reported earlier this week that Albania could be facing bread products being removed from...