{"id":4114,"date":"2026-03-01T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/4114\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T09:49:09","slug":"belgium-seizes-suspected-russian-shadow-fleet-vessel-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/4114\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium seizes suspected Russian shadow fleet vessel \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Bart De Wever <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bart_DeWever\/status\/2027908836216975532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">congratulated<\/a> Belgium&#8217;s armed forces for &#8220;last night&#8217;s successful operation&#8221; and thanked France for its assistance. &#8220;Belgium will uphold international maritime law and the security of its territorial waters,&#8221; De Wever added in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bart_DeWever\/status\/2027908836216975532\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bart_DeWever\/status\/2027908836216975532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Pr\u00e9vot said in a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prevotmaxime\/status\/2028020694827540803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a> that the operation &#8220;was carried out within the International Task Force on the Shadow Fleet, alongside our G7, Nordic and Baltic partners.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The EU has struggled to stop Russia from exporting oil with the shadow fleet. As of December, it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2025\/12\/18\/russia-s-war-of-aggression-against-ukraine-council-sanctions-41-vessels-of-the-russian-shadow-fleet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">designated<\/a> about 600 vessels as part of the fleet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Bart De Wever congratulated Belgium&#8217;s armed forces for &#8220;last night&#8217;s successful operation&#8221; and thanked France for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1595,76,7,1597,408,2637,2671,390,430],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-baltics","tag-bart-de-wever","tag-belgium","tag-defense","tag-infrastructure","tag-oil","tag-ports","tag-russia","tag-theo-francken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}