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BrusselsThe European Union is getting to work after Viktor Orbán’s departure as Prime Minister of Hungary. The European bloc was able to approve the twentieth sanctions package One of the most symbolic measures announced by Von der Leyen is to ban Russian soldiers from entering. “We propose for the first time to prohibit entry into the European Union to any person who has served in the Russian armed forces since the beginning of the war,” remarked the President of the European Commission this Tuesday in a statement without questions.
In a context of Russian drone attacks against EU and NATO partners, the head of the Community executive has proposed increasing export restrictions to Vladimir Putin’s regime of key materials and technology for the manufacture of aerospace materials and military equipment. Also in the commercial sphere, Brussels plans to end the sale of certain minerals, car parts and, among others, fish, especially cod. In total, the export of these products to Russia and Belarus by the European Union amounts to 60 million euros annually.
Von der Leyen also proposes to include 30 more ships of the so-called ghost fleet on the EU’s blacklist and, therefore, that they be subject to sanctions and more controls. In addition, Brussels wants to include vessels and critical infrastructure – such as ports, airports or refineries – that support these ships and, for example, supply them with fuel and other services.