{"id":19850,"date":"2026-02-21T03:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/19850\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:39:12","slug":"eu-commission-clears-berlins-control-of-rosnefts-german-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/19850\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Commission clears Berlin&#8217;s control of Rosneft&#8217;s German assets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">FRANKFURT, Feb 20 (Reuters) &#8211; The European Commission on Friday said it had approved \u200cthe &#8220;acquisition of sole control&#8221; of \u200cRosneft&#8217;s German assets by the German economy ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">A spokesperson \u200bfor the Commission, which is the European Union&#8217;s executive body, said the move merely approves the new trusteeship regime, meaning it \u200cessentially will be \u2060extended indefinitely until a new structure emerges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Rosneft did not immediately reply \u2060to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The Russian company&#8217;s German arm owns a controlling stake \u200bin the \u200bPCK oil refinery, \u200bwhich supplies most of \u200cBerlin&#8217;s fuel, including to its airport, petrol to pumps across eastern Germany and key ingredients to the local chemicals industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The assets, which include stakes in the MiRo \u200cand Bayernoil refineries, were \u200bplaced in the German government&#8217;s \u200btrusteeship, in \u200b2022 after Moscow&#8217;s invasion of \u200cUkraine rocked Germany&#8217;s decades-long \u200benergy ties \u200bwith Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The trusteeship arrangement so far has been renewed every six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by \u200bChristoph Steitz, \u200cadditional reporting by Olesya Astakhova, writing \u200bby Thomas Seythal, editing by Friederike \u200bHeine and Ludwig Burger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRANKFURT, Feb 20 (Reuters) &#8211; The European Commission on Friday said it had approved \u200cthe &#8220;acquisition of sole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,8773,2610,73,13822,190,13647,13646],"class_list":["post-19850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-commission","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-german-assets","tag-germany","tag-rosneft","tag-trusteeship"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}